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majiq

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Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 259

Playing with Processes

Hello,

Here's a fun question: Is there a way to start a process in the background via terminal, close the terminal, open a new terminal, and then catch that process?

I was thinking that if there were a way to make that possible, I could move processes across X servers.

Thought?

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 1,819

Re: Playing with Processes

Yep, it's what a terminal multiplexer does.
dtach: does what you want http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2752
screen: does a lot more http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/screen/
tmux: like screen http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20079