To Start an Application on Your System Using a Terminal Emulator

Type the command that starts the application into the terminal emulator window.

If the application has its own window, you should add an ampersand character (&) to the end of the command. This runs the application ``in the background,'' which lets you continue using the terminal emulator window while the application is running.

For example, the following command runs the load meter program xload in the background:

/usr/bin/X11/xload &