Due to habits formed over the years, I tend to click on the "x" icon in a Skype session running on Windows to minimize it however when I do the same on Linux Mint 11, it is sent to the background and there doesn't appear to be a way to bring it back to the foreground without me killing the running instance. Is there a better way?
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When I run the command nohup skype &
, it seems brings Skype back to the foreground however am logged out. I am then unable to log back in without killing the process. The command fg %processid
seems to be limited to jobs
EDIT 1
I am running Linux Mint 11, with Gnome 2. I believe the window manager is Metacity.
fg
and friends are about disconnecting from the controlling tty. Click on an X in a windowed session is going to do whatever the active X Window Manager and Desktop (Xfce, Gnome's Metacity, KDE, etc) is configured to do, like minimizing to a "tray", etc.ps aux | grep 'skype'
, I see it running however am unable to access it unless I run the commandkill %processid
orkillall skype
.