Handy tip for starting the Debug Console in Linux

[Tricky]

$ man screen

$ screen -dmS oolite ./oolite

NB: '$' is the prompt.

[CommRLock78]

$ man screen

$ screen -dmS oolite ./oolite

NB: '$' is the prompt.

Hmm... Mint doesn't have screen by default. I'm guessing this has the same affect as my alias?
Edit: Since you didn't get a chance to reply Tricky, I went ahead and installed - curiosity killed the cat, so to speak.... <reading man page now>

[Diziet Sma]

I added another alias, it's actually a couple more letters than oolite, but, it will launch the game and exit the terminal, much like your debug alias

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alias ooniverse='nohup oolite & exit'

I was wondering to myself, why go to the bother of launching Oolite via a terminal in the first place, but then I realised you maybe just do it after 'oodebug' in order to save a click or two.. (but if that's the case, why not just have a single alias that launches the Debug Console, and then starts Oolite, all in one?)

(by george, I'm a genius! <wanders off to modify the oodebug alias>

[Tricky]

$ man screen

$ screen -dmS oolite ./oolite

NB: '$' is the prompt.

Hmm... Mint doesn't have screen by default. I'm guessing this has the same affect as my alias?
Edit: Since you didn't get a chance to reply Tricky, I went ahead and installed - curiosity killed the cat, so to speak.... <reading man page now>

Was posted just before I went to bed.

Quick primer.
screen creates a virtual terminal that you can run processes in.

The above line creates a detached terminal, that is not attached to, named oolite. Useful in startup scripts. You can use screen -r oolite to reattach to it and <CTRL> A then keypress d to detach from it. Whilst attached to it you can treat it like any regular terminal.

screen -ls lists any screen sessions.
screen -wipe removes all dead sessions.

[CommRLock78]

Was posted just before I went to bed.

Quick primer.
screen creates a virtual terminal that you can run processes in.

The above line creates a detached terminal, that is not attached to, named oolite. Useful in startup scripts. You can use screen -r oolite to reattach to it and <CTRL> A then keypress d to detach from it. Whilst attached to it you can treat it like any regular terminal.

screen -ls lists any screen sessions.
screen -wipe removes all dead sessions.

Interesting - I just tried it out - and, as you say, there doesn't seem to be any attachment to the terminal, although pressing Ctrl+A returned me to the prompt without closing oolite. Man, there sure is a lot to learn about Linux .

[CommRLock78]

I was wondering to myself, why go to the bother of launching Oolite via a terminal in the first place....

No real reason other than I can - it lends me the opportunity of seeing what part of the line does what .

(by george, I'm a genius! <wanders off to modify the oodebug alias>

Nice !

[CommRLock78]

An admin on the Mint forums linked me to this guy's blog, and I found this on his site:
my_bashrc_aliases_profile_and_other_stuff