Redhat Linux: Starting a program from the terminal

[FOBSIDE]

Basically whenever I try to run GAIM from the terminal, GAIM will close when I close the terminal I originally opened up GAIM in. I tried typing "gaim" "gaim&" gaim &" but none of them seem to work. Does anyone have any idea why the application is closing when I close the terminal?

 

[MGMorden]

That's standard Unix behavior. All apps that I've ever seen die if their parent process dies. If you want to keep the app up "permanently" run it from the run command of whatever windowmanager you're using (most of the newer ones do, though I know twm and fvwm don't, so if you're using those you're pretty much stuck to using xterm to launch apps).

 

[Sensei]

If you use gnome, kde, or windowmaker.

There is a run utility.

For windowmaker:

right click on the screen and a little menu pops up and you click run...

then type the name of the program (of course that program has to be in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin to be recognized).

Gaim does install itself to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin so that will work after install.

KDE:

click on the K (a la windows start button) and goto run.

There are certain KDE programs that will continue to run even after you have started them in a console and closed them. kmail is one example.