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Understanding when background process gets terminated
I have a script which starts a number of background processes and if works fine when called from the cmdline.
However the same script is also called during my xsession startup and additionally on ...
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How can I kill a job that was initiated in another shell (terminal window or tab)?
If I begin a process and background it in a terminal window (say ping google.com &), I can kill it using kill %1 (assuming it is job 1).
However if I open another terminal window (or tab) the ...
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How is a graphical application started from a bash session connected to that bash session?
When I start a graphical application from a terminal running bash, that application is somehow connected to that bash session. For example, when the applications dumps some text it will appear in the ...
