Ah, thanks, that's it! Using nohup did the trick. Now my one-line solution
to all things latexy is

rubber -d main && (wmctrl -a main.pdf || nohup gnome-open main.pdf >
/dev/null)

which compiles the document and runs a viewer.

Thanks!
Antoine
On 30 June 2010 23:51, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Yes, I understand that. What I don't understand is why this command does
> > not work when using compile.
>
> It does work, but the command is immediately killed by SIGHUP because
> the session is closed.
>
> Andreas.
>
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