This is barely a KDE tip/trick but I find it useful. Many times I like to launch kate from command line and want it to go background and stop polluting my terminal.

I don't know if there is a better way to do this. I have seen some people having alias

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kate='kate 2>/dev/null &'

but that didn't work for me when I want to have arguments like $ kate file.txt

What I did was add the following line to ~/.bashrc

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kate () { /home/kanttu/bin/kate.sh "$*"; }

Then made a script /home/kanttu/bin/kate.sh which launches kate in background and dumps the stdout to /dev/null

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#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/kate -u $1 &>/dev/null &
exit

I still think there a room for improvements.

kanttu wrote:This is barely a KDE tip/trick but I find it useful. Many times I like to launch kate from command line and want it to go background and stop polluting my terminal.

I don't know if there is a better way to do this. I have seen some people having alias

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kate='kate 2>/dev/null &'

but that didn't work for me when I want to have arguments like $ kate file.txt

What I did was add the following line to ~/.bashrc

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kate () { /home/kanttu/bin/kate.sh "$*"; }

Then made a script /home/kanttu/bin/kate.sh which launches kate in background and dumps the stdout to /dev/null

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#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/kate -u $1 &>/dev/null &
exit

I still think there a room for improvements.

a bash function or alias is all you need
either

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 alias kate='kate ${1+"$@"} 2> /dev/null > /dev/null'

or

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function kate() { kate ${1+"$@"} 2> /dev/null > /dev/null }

hope this helps

nohup kate
nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out'
^C
nutter@muttley:~$ nohup kate&
nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out'
[1] 4069


easy