<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;font-size:88.89%;">Personally, I will often suspend and background a task, since it’s faster to use type the short commands (usually ^Z and fg when done) all in the terminal, rather than require use of the mouse (or possibly using other different keyboard commands) to open a new terminal window, do your task, and close the window.</div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;font-size:88.89%;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;font-size:88.89%;">I will still sometimes reflexively use ^Z/fg even when working in tmux, especially if what I need to do is a prerequisite to the backgrounded task getting done - “jobs” output becomes my working “stack”.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;font-size:88.89%;"><br></div><div id="sig44647154"><div class="signature">--</div><div class="signature">Jeffrey H. Johnson</div><div class="signature"><a href="mailto:trnsz@pobox.com">trnsz@pobox.com</a></div></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;font-size:88.89%;"><br></div><div>On Sat, Jul 19, 2025, at 7:03 PM, Noel Hunt wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;"><br></div></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;">> </span>I still like to use ^Z to suspend a running program, even when I use</div><div><span class="font" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;">> </span>X11. </div><div><br></div><div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;">Since it would appear that that is totally unnecessary in a</div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace, monospace;">window system, as Doug pointed out, one has to ask why?</div></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;font-size:88.89%;"><br></div></body></html>