{"id":221,"date":"2010-10-29T21:29:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T10:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/?p=221"},"modified":"2010-10-29T12:40:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T01:40:29","slug":"detaching-far-manager-from-long-running-process-on-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/2010\/10\/detaching-far-manager-from-long-running-process-on-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Detaching Far Manager from long-running process on Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Occasionally\u00c2\u00a0I launch a program from Far Manager that takes very long to complete. Normally you can use Ctrl+Alt+Tab to “detach” Far from a running process. Technical note #27<\/a> explains this well:<\/p>\n

If a long-running process (for example, archiving) was run in a FAR console, and for some reasons this very instance of FAR is needed (an editor in the background) or it is undesirable to run a new instance ofFAR, pressing this key combination will create a new console for FAR where it will continue running as if the process has already ended, and the process will continue working in the old console.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately this doesn’t work on Windows 7. Instead of detaching you get Windows task switcher:<\/p>\n

\"Windows<\/p>\n

Interestingly the switcher is in “sticky” mode. It doesn’t disappear when you release keys. You can use arrow keys to select a window.<\/p>\n

The fix is easy:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Start regedit, open HKCU\\Software\\far2\\System key.<\/li>\n
  2. Create\u00c2\u00a0ConsoleDetachKey string value, set it to some keyboard shortcut. I use CtrlAltX.<\/li>\n
  3. Restart Far Manager<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To test it try executing this command from Far:<\/p>\n

    ping google.com -t<\/code><\/pre>\n
    Press Ctrl+Alt+X to get back to Far without stopping pings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Occasionally\u00c2\u00a0I launch a program from Far Manager that takes very long to complete. Normally you can use Ctrl+Alt+Tab to “detach” Far from a running process. Technical note #27 explains this well: If a long-running process (for example, archiving) was run in a FAR console, and for some reasons this very instance of FAR is needed … Continue reading Detaching Far Manager from long-running process on Windows 7<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-far-manager"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}