Linux tips

in

garden

Shell

Don’t make a non-posix (like fish) shell your default

This breaks compatibility of scripts without a shebang. Instead just set your terminal emulator to auto launch fish

I launched a graphical process from my terminal emulator, and want to close the terminal but keep it running

^Zfish: Job 1, 'process' has stopped
$ disown
disown: job 1 ('process') was stopped and has been signalled to continue.

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