non-login shell

[Scott Henson]

Sean Sieger wrote:

>This may be vague but ...
>
>When I do
>
>emacs&
>
>in a gnome-terminal, why would the process not be
>detached? Thank you.
>  
>
Because it is backgrounded.  Not detached from the terminal.  Try
"disown %1" after you start emacs.  That should completely detach the
process from the terminal.  Also alt-F2 then starting emacs from there
is probably more of what you want.