[Request] Hide Window

Feature Requests
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I often find myself with multiple windows open that are non-interactable, (like the terminal window that I launch an X window from, or launch an app from, etc. [there are 3 in the screen shot]).

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Would be nice to have the option to hide them…
Maybe it could be an option after long-pressing, when you get the little ‘x’ marks, and there’s a pulldown option to “close all”, there could also be an option to select windows to hide.
Or, maybe there could be an additional desktop you could slide them to…

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You could install screen and detach the processes with C-a d.

Or, you could create custom .desktop files for the launch commands and skip the terminal altogether.

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Most shells do have a disown command to disown any background processes attached to the shell or you just start with nohup <command> & directly, then it directly forks itself.

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4

Let’s just say that I have not pushed the boundaries of BusyBox that far yet :slight_smile:

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Have screen (and tmux and zellij) and have done the .desktop thing some, but I get habitual, or don’t think ahead, and often end up with the windows anyway…

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This I did not know about - very nice…

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That’s what ctrl-z followed by bg is used for :wink:

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8

At risk of sounding like an Apple user: you shouldn’t (be able to) create multiple instances of one app in the first place. Thus asking for Jolla to cater for it is quite a stretch.

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9

Alter which you can issue disown and happily exit the shell! :slight_smile:

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Btw - I’m American… We like to be given what we want

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