How to prevent output from '&' and '>' operator (send to background operator and redirection operator)

I have tried various combinations of gedit, &, >/dev/null 2>/dev/null. When gedit is used with the other two it always prints something to the terminal.

I understand that the numbers are pid's. But, please elucidate the following

• Why are those outputs produced when I redirected stdout and stderr to /dev/null, whereas bare gedit does print nothing?
• What does [1]+ Done mean?
• How to prevent those outputs?

$ sleep 10 &
[1] 24446
$ 
[1]+  Done                    sleep 10

The [1] 24446 and [1]+ Done ... are printed by the shell. From man bash:

When  bash starts a job asynchronously (in the background), it prints a
line that looks like:

      [1] 25647

You can disable the Done output by disabling monitor mode:

set +m

You cannot disable the first form in an interactive shell, however. Instead, try running in a subshell:

$ (gedit &> /dev/null &)
$ 

if you use this, the background process is no longer under job control of the shell.

One a side note, &> can be used to redirect both stdout and stderr together.