What's different calling a program from a terminal and from a window manager?

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For example I set up a combined keys of i3 wm that calling firefox, what's different from it with calling firefox in a terminal?






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    ls /proc/pid_of_firefox/fd -l It doesn't get a terminal as stdin/stdout/stderr
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  • I got this line: 8 00:18 0 -> /dev/pts/0, the same as type tty in terminal, so I guess firefox was invoked from terminal and from wm wouldn't have that redirection.
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    ls /proc/pid_of_firefox/fd -l It doesn't get a terminal as stdin/stdout/stderr
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  • I got this line: 8 00:18 0 -> /dev/pts/0, the same as type tty in terminal, so I guess firefox was invoked from terminal and from wm wouldn't have that redirection.
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For example I set up a combined keys of i3 wm that calling firefox, what's different from it with calling firefox in a terminal?






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For example I set up a combined keys of i3 wm that calling firefox, what's different from it with calling firefox in a terminal?






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    ls /proc/pid_of_firefox/fd -l It doesn't get a terminal as stdin/stdout/stderr
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  • I got this line: 8 00:18 0 -> /dev/pts/0, the same as type tty in terminal, so I guess firefox was invoked from terminal and from wm wouldn't have that redirection.
    – Tuyen Pham
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    ls /proc/pid_of_firefox/fd -l It doesn't get a terminal as stdin/stdout/stderr
    – ç¥žç§˜å¾·é‡Œå…‹
    yesterday










  • I got this line: 8 00:18 0 -> /dev/pts/0, the same as type tty in terminal, so I guess firefox was invoked from terminal and from wm wouldn't have that redirection.
    – Tuyen Pham
    yesterday







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ls /proc/pid_of_firefox/fd -l It doesn't get a terminal as stdin/stdout/stderr
– ç¥žç§˜å¾·é‡Œå…‹
yesterday




ls /proc/pid_of_firefox/fd -l It doesn't get a terminal as stdin/stdout/stderr
– ç¥žç§˜å¾·é‡Œå…‹
yesterday












I got this line: 8 00:18 0 -> /dev/pts/0, the same as type tty in terminal, so I guess firefox was invoked from terminal and from wm wouldn't have that redirection.
– Tuyen Pham
yesterday




I got this line: 8 00:18 0 -> /dev/pts/0, the same as type tty in terminal, so I guess firefox was invoked from terminal and from wm wouldn't have that redirection.
– Tuyen Pham
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