Start background process from .bashrc

Question

I realize that this might be a stupid issue but I can\'t solve it for hours even if digged stackoverflow site and google throughly.

Here is the base code in .bashrc

Answer 1

Almost forgot about this issue and answering my own question after found a working solution long ago ;) Follow works great in my .bashrc for years

mygkrellm()
{
    if pidof -x "gkrellm" >/dev/null; then
    echo "Gkrellm is already running. Go to shell!"       
    else
    nohup "/usr/bin/gkrellm" &
    fi
}