Terminal engaged while using gedit or firefox

Question

When I launch gedit or firefox from a terminal, the terminal is occupied(by occupied I mean no other commands can be run from the same terminal window) untill I press ctrl+c but it kills gedit or firefox. Any way other than opening a new terminal window?

K7AAY · Answer 1 · 2013-12-30T22:45:05.667

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As per http://www.linuxandlife.com/2012/07/how-to-run-multiple-commands-in-terminal.html follow the command to launch the app with an ampersand, e.g.:

firefox &

gedit &

Following the command with the ampersand launches the app then returns cursor control to the terminal window immediately so you are free to run another command within that window.

edited Dec 30 '13 at 22:45

answered Dec 30 '13 at 22:39

K7AAY

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 30 '13 at 22:42

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You put the applications into the background with the & ...

firefox &

If you want to re-direct error messages and close the terminal leaving the applications running,

nohup firefox > /dev/null 2>&1 &

answered Dec 30 '13 at 22:42

Panther

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Terminal engaged while using gedit or firefox

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