cmus-devel Digest, Vol 71, Issue 8

[Semen]

I mean go to work in the background and return to the shell (When you enter
"cmus" command in a shell interface returns). I've seen this behavior in
the MOC player (http://moc.daper.net/). I know that there are some native
linux terminal techniques for this purpose. If you consider this request
stupid, then sorry for the time taken away.

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Hi.
Could you add an ability to quit from cmus without playback stopping?
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Hi.
Could you add an ability to quit from cmus without playback stopping?

Are you serious?
If so what do you mean?
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[Jason Woofenden]

Post by Semen

Hi.
Could you add an ability to quit from cmus without playback stopping?

Are you serious?
If so what do you mean?

I mean go to work in the background and return to the shell (When you enter
"cmus" command in a shell interface returns). I've seen this behavior in
the MOC player (http://moc.daper.net/). I know that there are some native
linux terminal techniques for this purpose. If you consider this request
stupid, then sorry for the time taken away.

Ahh, running in the background. You can achieve this through
programs such as GNU Screen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen

You can control cmus through cmus-remote, or bring the interface
back up with screen.

- Jason

[Johannes Weißl]

Hi Semen,

as Jason already wrote, this can be accomplished with GNU screen. It is
fairly often requested, so I wrote a wiki entry how to do it:

http://cmus.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php?id=detachable_cmus

Tell us if you need more help!

Greetings,
Johannes