[PD] Launching puredata -nogui from a terminal

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Sat Jun 18 17:08:33 CEST 2011


On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Bernardo Barros wrote:
> 2011/6/17 Matteo Sisti Sette <matteosistisette at gmail.com>:
>> Is there a way to launch Pd from a script with -nogui in such a way that
>> when the terminal in which it was launched is closed, the Pd process is also
>> killed?
>
> That's what already happen with all jobs running on one particular
> terminal.  If you open a text editor from terminal, you can't close
> that terminal until you save your text.. etc..

Note that when you press Ctrl+z in the Terminal and then say :

   bg; exit

it closes the terminal while keeping all the same tasks running.

same when launching an app from a Terminal by saying :

   pd whatever.pd & exit

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