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Start graphical applications from the terminal without output and without blocking the terminal?

when I want to run a file manager or firefox from terminal, how can I surpress output and run it in the background as quickly as possible?

My current approach (an example starting thunar file manager in background):

thunar ./hello.txt&

but sometimes messages still pop up in the terminal then ...

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thunar ./hello.txt >/dev/null 2>&1 &

The >/dev/null sends stdout to nowhere while the 2>&1 send stderr to stdout

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Is this the fastest way? typing this out with every call is tideous. can one add an alias for this?

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