How to implement typical behavior of process suspension via Ctrl+Z and subsequent sending to background via bg?

[whatbh]

In Bash, a foreground process can be suspended using Ctrl+Z, the terminal sends a signal to suspend the process and returns to the shell prompt. The suspended process can then be resumed in background or foreground by using bg or fg command, respectively.

In clifm, pressing Ctrl+Z can somewhat suspend the process but it never returns to the shell prompt. The shell now is in an unusable state, even if the suspended process is killed, nothing works, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+D does not work.

On the other hand, I don't want to sacrifice the ability to place jobs on-the-fly by having to specifically run a job with an ampersand.

Is there anyway to do this but I have overlooked somewhere? Or this feature is not implemented in clifm yet? Should I open an issue regarding this matter?

Thanks.

[leo-arch]

Hi @whatbh. Thanks for your comments.

In Bash, a foreground process can be suspended using Ctrl+Z, the terminal sends a signal to suspend the process and returns to the shell prompt. The suspended process can then be resumed in background or foreground by using bg or fg command, respectively.

Job control, beyond the basic run-in-the-background via ampersand, is not implemented in clifm. This is a typical shell feature, true, but clifm is not a shell, but a file manager. However, it might be implemented in the future. Please open an issue requesting this feature, so that we can keep track of it.

In clifm, pressing Ctrl+Z can somewhat suspend the process but it never returns to the shell prompt. The shell now is in an unusable state, even if the suspended process is killed, nothing works, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+D does not work.

This is a bug. Please open a second issue and write a bug report.

[whatbh]

Excellent, thank you for clarifying that! Appreciate all the effort I will proceed to open an issue regarding this matter.