Preventing applications from being closed on terminal exit

Question

When I close a terminal it closes all programs opened from it. In other Linux packages such as scientific linux using an ampersand prevents this, e.g., emacs file.txt & However, this is not the case with ubuntu 10.04. Is there away to stop the applications like emacs being closed on exit of the terminal? I have tried nohup but this dosen't work.

Answer 1

You can use disown. For example, emacs file.txt & disown After that, exiting terminal won't exit the program started from it.