Re: Launching several applications via shell...

2012-03-28 Thread Glen Bojsza
Using this shell method any of the applications launched run as if they were launched natively from Linux Menus so I guess the answer is yes. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Thierry Douez wrote: > 2012/3/28 Glen Bojsza > > > I found that this will work > > > > get shell("trafficgen > /dev/nul

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

2012-03-28 Thread Thierry Douez
2012/3/28 Glen Bojsza > I found that this will work > > get shell("trafficgen > /dev/null 2>&1 &") > > According to Linux it places it as a background process. > > thanks, > > Glen > > Hi Glen, Out of curiosity, if you start an interactive process, i.e an editor; does your solution still works ?

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

2012-03-28 Thread Glen Bojsza
I found that this will work get shell("trafficgen > /dev/null 2>&1 &") According to Linux it places it as a background process. thanks, Glen On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > launch "path/to/app" should work right? > > or > > open process "path/to/app" for neither > > ma

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

2012-03-28 Thread Mike Bonner
launch "path/to/app" should work right? or open process "path/to/app" for neither maybe? Or the other way as mentioned by theirry I think if you do it like so get shell("mycommand & ; disown") so that disown is on its own it might work. (with no arguments it acts on the current job which in th

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

2012-03-28 Thread Thierry Douez
2012/3/28 Thierry Douez > > > 2012/3/28 Glen Bojsza > >> Hi Thierry, >> >> I just tried your idea but with the same problem... unless I close the >> first application that has been opened the other won't open. >> >> >> and about this one ? > >get shell("trafficgen & disown &") >.

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

2012-03-28 Thread Thierry Douez
2012/3/28 Glen Bojsza > Hi Thierry, > > I just tried your idea but with the same problem... unless I close the > first application that has been opened the other won't open. > > > and about this one ? get shell("trafficgen & disown &") get shell("editor & disown &") S

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

2012-03-28 Thread Glen Bojsza
Hi Thierry, I just tried your idea but with the same problem... unless I close the first application that has been opened the other won't open. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Thierry Douez wrote: > 2012/3/28 Glen Bojsza > > I am trying to have a simple application launcher (on Linux) where

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

2012-03-28 Thread Thierry Douez
2012/3/28 Glen Bojsza I am trying to have a simple application launcher (on Linux) where the user > can launch different applications but a clicking the associated button. > > The problem is that once the user has launched one application none of the > others will launch until they close the appl