Oh yeah, and if you don't want to make ANY changes to your app, you can always add & to your call on the command line to run it in the background

Quick from http://linux.about.com/od/linux101/l/blnewbie3_3_1.htm
Example: MyApp &

NOTE: There is a space between app and the &. Of course if you had command line args you would do MyApp [args] &

- Jeremy