[PLUG] a question regarding something like nohup or disown

[Russell Senior]

Have you tried screen (or tmux) to see if it does what you want? With
screen (I don't use tmux, so not sure), you can detach and reattach to the
session, and all your windows within that session are still there and
running. I think the limitation might be that GUI stuff isn't in the
session, so those kinds of processes aren't preserved.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 1:41 PM American Citizen <website.reader3 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I am running the KDE Plasmashell desktop, but it has memory leaks and
> eventually I will run out of system memory.
>
> If I logout, I will lose certain running jobs, which I really want to
> keep running.
>
> However if I start a shell, and do the %jobs -l command, nothing is
> there, so I cannot use %disown -r command nor prepend nohup in front of
> some command line execution with a background exec &.
>
> Just how can I attach a nohup to certain running pids, such that if I
> have to logout of the desktop session, these jobs still keep running?
>
> So far, the examples I have seen of nohup and disown, assume that one
> has a current shell open. They don't discuss what happens after the fact?
>
> Currently, if I logout of the desktop session, or restart the desktop, I
> lose the running programs.
>
> Any idea on how to stop this?
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