Re: All programs closing when xbindkeys closes

[Jason Miller]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:13:01 -0400 Marcel Robitaille <mail@marcelrobitaille.me> 
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to make it so that I can terminate xbindkeys without all the
> programs I launch with it closing too. I tried putting nohup in front of
> these commands, which words if I launch a program like that in the terminal
> and then close the terminal. If I try that in .xbindkeysrc however, killing
> xbindkeys still closes all these programs. Is this intended behaviour? Is
> there a way I can work around it?

Try using daemonize instead of nohup; nohup just ignores terminal hangups, it
doesn't detatch from the parent process.

-Jason