Add option to start thelounge in background

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I understand that for platforms that have prebuilt packages, by using systemctl service(8) or similar, thelounge will be up and running as a service in the background. However, for users who install thelounge via npm/yarn, extra steps are needed to have it run in background.

IMO it would be really useful to have a CLI option to configure thelounge to start then move to the background, something like:

thelounge start --background

It would be even better if we have the whole “service”-like option built in, like:

thelounge start
thelounge stop
thelounge restart

I haven’t dived in the codebase too much, and it is just my own thought, I am sorry if this is not a feasible / needed feature.

[yzgyyang]

@Azrael25 You could either use tmux or write a service yourself for now 😃

[Azrael25]

Hi People, Sorry if this isnt the right place to ask this, topic is related… how do you get thelounge to stay open in the background? when i start it via Thelounge & then thelounge start -c port=9000 -c public=true it will start but when i exit via Ctrl C it shuts down thelounge? can someone point me in the right direction?

thanks… and once again sorry if this is the wrong place to ask!