application startup on terminal/shell

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:22:49 +0100, Zahid Rahman wrote:
>I have also have the Mate Terminal even though I am running XFCE 4 via
>vnc viewer
>
> Edit -> profile preferences -> Title and Command  ->  "Run as Custom
>Command instead of my shell " Custom command : neofetch
>
>The neofetch app does start but then I get what looks like is an error
>message "The child process exited normally with a status 0"
>The command prompt does not appear.

Try running

neofetch &

or

(neofetch) &