When Adobe acroread is run from a terminal, ctrl/z doesn't suspend it. ^Z appears on the terminal, which hangs until acroread terminates itself or ctrl/c is pressed on the terminal. However "$ acroread &" starts acroread in the background and ctrl/z suspends all other programs, as expected. System is Fedora-19 with all updates installed.
Has anyone else seen this? What's going on?
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan jonrysh@pacbell.netwrote:
When Adobe acroread is run from a terminal, ctrl/z doesn't suspend it. ^Z appears on the terminal, which hangs until acroread terminates itself or ctrl/c is pressed on the terminal. However "$ acroread &" starts acroread in the background and ctrl/z suspends all other programs, as expected. System is Fedora-19 with all updates installed.
Has anyone else seen this? What's going on?
Presumably acroread is trapping the Ctrl-Z. Whether that's a bug or a feature is a matter of conjecture. Programs can do pretty much what they like with their controlling terminal. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with your system.
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 03:07:49PM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
When Adobe acroread is run from a terminal, ctrl/z doesn't suspend it. ^Z appears on the terminal, which hangs until acroread terminates itself or ctrl/c is pressed on the terminal. However "$ acroread &" starts acroread in the background and ctrl/z suspends all other programs, as expected. System is Fedora-19 with all updates installed.
Has anyone else seen this? What's going on?
Not here (same F19 updated):
mihai@mtl> acroread ^Z [1]+ Stopped acroread mihai@mtl>
I use xterm and AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486
HTH, Mihai
On 12/20/13 08:22, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 03:07:49PM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
When Adobe acroread is run from a terminal, ctrl/z doesn't suspend it. ^Z appears on the terminal, which hangs until acroread terminates itself or ctrl/c is pressed on the terminal. However "$ acroread &" starts acroread in the background and ctrl/z suspends all other programs, as expected. System is Fedora-19 with all updates installed.
Has anyone else seen this? What's going on?
Not here (same F19 updated):
mihai@mtl> acroread ^Z [1]+ Stopped acroread mihai@mtl>I use xterm and AdobeReader_enu-9.5.5-1.i486
Also suspends for me under KDE/konsole/F19