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Mich

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Registered: 2009-01-22

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[Resolved] Any difference in "pidgin" and "pidgin &" ?

Using pidgin and wanted to autostart it upon login.

Should I add pidgin or pidgin & or pidgin && in autostart

Is there a real difference?

ZeroTruths

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Registered: 2008-12-31

Posts: 331

Re: [Resolved] Any difference in "pidgin" and "pidgin &" ?

By using pidgin everything will wait for pidgin to finish, aka close.
By using pidgin & it will execute pidgin, and then move along. No stall.
And I'm just not sure about the last one.

So you want to use pidgin & for autostarting.

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sgosnell

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Registered: 2009-01-28

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Re: [Resolved] Any difference in "pidgin" and "pidgin &" ?

You almost always want to use the & after running any program, in a script or in the terminal.

Mich

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Registered: 2009-01-22

Posts: 97

Re: [Resolved] Any difference in "pidgin" and "pidgin &" ?

By using pidgin everything will wait for pidgin to finish, aka close.
By using pidgin & it will execute pidgin, and then move along. No stall.
And I'm just not sure about the last one.

So you want to use pidgin & for autostarting.

Got that, thanks.

Just tested and wanted to share this.

pidgin in autostart.sh and upon login, my keyboard is not working, pagar is partially missing

pidgin & in autostart.sh , so far so good

ZeroTruths

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Registered: 2008-12-31

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Re: [Resolved] Any difference in "pidgin" and "pidgin &" ?

pidgin in autostart.sh and upon login, my keyboard is not working, pagar is partially missing

When that happens, you just need to kill pidgin, and then all will be restored (it happened to me w/ wine )

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papparonny

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Registered: 2009-01-16

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Re: [Resolved] Any difference in "pidgin" and "pidgin &" ?

By using pidgin everything will wait for pidgin to finish, aka close.
By using pidgin & it will execute pidgin, and then move along. No stall.
And I'm just not sure about the last one.

So you want to use pidgin & for autostarting.

using && is conditional..
the script will only continue if command before was successful..  example:
do_this && do_that    -->  if bash is unable to execute "do_this" then "do_that" is not executed either

Foomandoonian

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From: Cardiff, UK

Registered: 2008-12-07

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Re: [Resolved] Any difference in "pidgin" and "pidgin &" ?

using && is conditional..
the script will only continue if command before was successful..  example:
do_this && do_that    -->  if bash is unable to execute "do_this" then "do_that" is not executed either

Aaah! Thanks papparonny

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ZeroTruths

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Registered: 2008-12-31

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Re: [Resolved] Any difference in "pidgin" and "pidgin &" ?

oooh, cool.
I didn't know that

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Mich

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Registered: 2009-01-22

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Re: [Resolved] Any difference in "pidgin" and "pidgin &" ?

papparonny, thanks for the clarification.:D

Nik_Doof

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Registered: 2008-12-13

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Re: [Resolved] Any difference in "pidgin" and "pidgin &" ?

Hence the entries of

(sleep 5 && <command>) &

This code tells a new background instance of bash (the last &) to execute "sleep 5s", if that is successful then run the command.