Terminal that is set to close .. takes the disowned gui_app with itself

Question

a new terminal opens up and runs the script.

terminal -e "/script"

script runs a gui_app, disowns it. sleeps 4 seconds.

  #!/bin/sh

  /gui_app & disown

  sleep 4

after sleep.. terminal closes because there never was

   ;bash

attached to the command.

Conflict : it also shuts down the disowned gui_app

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:37

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Try using nohup rather than disown:

nohup /gui_app &

Note that this will feed output into a file, nohup.out. To prevent this send stdout and stderr to /dev/null:

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

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:37

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answered Feb 27 '17 at 16:53

CameronNemo

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