Start an application from terminal and make it run autonomously is a command line code snippet to start an application from terminal and make it run autonomously. After this, the terminal can be closed.

Start an application from command line, for example 'gftp'
Break the application in the terminal, by pressing CTRL-Z
Type 'bg' ('background') in the terminal (note: an ampersand ('&') achieves the same?)
Type 'disown' in the terminal (note: an exclamation mark ('!') achieves the same?)
You can now close the terminal

Below the terminal output of doing the above can be seen:


richel@richel-K73E:~$ gftp

^Z

[1]+  Stopped                 gftp

richel@richel-K73E:~$ bg

[1]+ gftp &

richel@richel-K73E:~$ disown

richel@richel-K73E:~$

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(Command line) Start an application from terminal and make it run autonomously