On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 12:22 +0900, nomnex wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:08:48 -0600
> Petrus de Calguarium <pguec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > setxkbmap -option compose:menu &
> 
> Wait, I have just a little question. What's the '&' for. Is it
> mandatory? It seems I have the same result if I pass the command
> without it.

The '&' is not part of the command. It's an instruction to the Shell to
run the command in the background. See any beginner's guide to any
Unix/Linux shell (sh, csh, bash, ksh, zsh, ...) for more information.

poc

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