Running a GUI program haults the calling program (linux)

[Michael Torrie]

On 09/25/2017 06:38 PM, Kryptxy via Python-list wrote:
> Is there any way that the GUI program is opened, and immediately the
> control returns to calling program, instead of keeping the terminal
> busy?

Yes. This is a classic situation where you want to first fork() the
process, then exec() the new app.  There are a few steps to do this
properly, so google for "python fork exec".