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Terminal engaged while using gedit or firefox

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When I launch gedit or firefox from a terminal, the terminal is occupied(by occupied I mean no other commands can be run from the same terminal window) untill I press ctrl+c but it kills gedit or firefox. Any way other than opening a new terminal window?

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answered 3 Years ago hirtieve · Accepted Answer

You put the applications into the background with the & ...

firefox &

If you want to re-direct error messages and close the terminal leaving the applications running,

nohup firefox > /dev/null 2>&1 &