title: Mate Panel app launcher background process terminates
body: <p>panel launcher</p>
  <pre><code>mate-terminal -e pactl.sh
  </code></pre>
  <p>pactl.sh
  a pulse audio hardware switching utility
  calls a test video file, also run for system startu
  p
  runs fine but the called script background process terminates</p>
  <p>thx.sh called script</p>
  <pre><code>mplayer -quiet -noborder /home/caltrop/.videos/THX.mp4 &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 &amp;
  disown
  </code></pre>
  <p>this runs fine everywhere except when run with an app launcher</p>