Closing the terminal results in closing of application started by the terminal even if the processes is backgrounded

Siju George sgeorge.ml at gmail.com
Sat Aug 23 08:18:21 UTC 2008


Hi,

I started Firefox from an xterm.
Then I pressed <ctrl> +Z
And the I typed bg to background Firefox process.
But when I close xterm firefox also closes.
Why is that?

thanks

Siju


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