Exit zsh, but leave running jobs open?

Question

Just switched from bash to zsh.

In bash, background tasks continue running when the shell exits. For example here, dolphin continues running after the

Answer 1

I typically use screen for keeping background jobs running.

1) Create a screen session:

screen -S myScreenName

2) Launch your scripts,services,daemons or whatever

3) Exit (detach) screen-session with

screen -d

or shortcut ALT+A then d

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After few hundreds of years - if you want to resume your session (reattach):

screen -r myScreenName

If you want to know if there's a screen-session, its name and its status (attached or detached):

screen -ls

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This solution works on all terminal interpreters like bash, zsh etc. See also man screen