11-14-2015
1. gnome-session is command starting the gnome desktop. In LXDE, lxsession should be the equivalent.
2. It's redirecting its stdout to nirwana as that obviously is not needed. It's communicating to e.g. the X server via other channels (e.g. UNIX sockets, shared memory, ...)
3. That puts a process into backgroud.
man bash:
Quote:
If a command is terminated by the control operator &, the shell executes the command in the background in a subshell. The shell does not wait for the command to finish, and the return status is 0.
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dgetlp
DGETLP(1) General Commands Manual DGETLP(1)
NAME
dgetlp - simulate ``dget'' behaviour for files hosted at librarian.launchpad.net
SYNOPSIS
dgetlp [-d|(-v|-q)] <Launchpad DSC URL>
DESCRIPTION
dgetlp simulates dget behaviour by downloading and extracting the <Launchpad DSC URL> from the Launchpad Librarian.
OPTIONS
Listed below are the command line options for dgetlp:
-h, --help
show this help message and exit.
-d, --debug
Enable debugging.
-v, --verbose
Enable verbose output.
-q, --quiet
Never print any output.
<Launchpad DSC URL>
This is the source package that you would like to be downloaded from the Launchpad Librarian.
EXAMPLE
dgetlp http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10348157/coreutils_5.97-5.4ubuntu1.dsc
AUTHOR
dgetlp was written by Terence Simpson <tsimpson@ubuntu.com> and modified by Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>. The python rewrite
was written by Terence Simpson <tsimpson@ubuntu.com> based off the original. This man page was written by Ryan Kavanagh
<ryanakca@kubuntu.org>. Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.
ubuntu-dev-tools 27 August 2008 DGETLP(1)