[TUHS] foreground/background vs. Windowing

[Jeff Johnson]

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.

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”.

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Jeffrey H. Johnson
trnsz at pobox.com

On Sat, Jul 19, 2025, at 7:03 PM, Noel Hunt wrote:
> 
> > I still like to use ^Z to suspend a running program, even when I use
> > X11. 
> 
> Since it would appear that that is totally unnecessary in a
> window system, as Doug pointed out, one has to ask why?
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