kevingpo

Does anyone know how to run a GUI X app remotely in background - that persists even when logged out?

Basically, I ssh into university to run my X program am developing for my project. However I need to leave it running for over 24 hours, maybe days on end preferably. I left it, however it auto-loggs out after 6 hours of idle keyboard input (or something like that).

I remember something about running a process (can it be X too?) in background, and then log out, and it's still running...

lakerdonald

You might want to investigate GNU Screen.

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kevingpo

Screen is very good. Thanks for the advice.

sharkyro

Alternatively you can run an application from terminal and add '&' at the end.

Example (this is how I download large files):
The process will be run in background until stopped (or until if finishes) even if you log out.

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spoon!

In bash,
will run a command in the background that doesn't get stopped by the SIGHUP from when you log out.

kevingpo

Ah, that also works.. plus no need to install screen. Excellent!