You know, I guess it's just personal convention from habit. I think I started doing that way back before I could remember how the redirects work without looking them up. Too lazy to change now.
So yeah, if you're trying to divine something clever from that, I wouldn't. :-) Sent from mobile. Original Message From: ropers Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2019 21:07 To: noah pugsley Cc: Edgar Pettijohn; Steve Litt; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD? > From: ropers > Tangentially related: Does anyone here routinely use the default fvwm? > > Now for a really noobish question: Those that do, do you also launch > graphical apps by typing something like this in xterm: > > $ firefox > /dev/null 2>&1 & > > or do you normally do something else that I've totally overlooked? On 08/05/2019, noah pugsley <noah.pugs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe I'm a weirdo, but no matter what I use for a window manager, I start > all programs from the cli. All. > > For Firefox or Chrome something like this: > > $ firefox & bw ; exit > > bw is a shortcut to an xterm with a bunch of options. Kill the one with the > console crap and poop out a fresh one. You probably know this, but just for the record/archives, the > $ firefox > /dev/null 2>&1 & line that I quoted earlier should normally take care of "the console crap": It redirects firefox's stdout to /dev/null, then redirects firefox's stderr to stdout and thus to /dev/null, and then sets firefox to run in the background. (So if, I don't know, bw is perhaps just a script you wrote to avoid "the console crap", then maybe it's not even necessary? I imagine it might even be easier to keep your history if you're not constantly spawning new xterms. If you're way ahead of me here and if I'm just totally missing the point, the plot and something obvious, feel free to engage in random acts of clue-battery. ;)
