Re: gnome-terminal not closing after "exit"

[Daniel Serodio <dserodio email com>]

Same thing happens with Eterm, so I guess it's not a Gnome Terminal
problem... Calling it with "Eterm &" does work, thou... BTW, I'm using GDM
(1.0.0-12 RPM) and Eterm is 0.8.9-1 RPM on RedHat 5.2

Daniel Serodio
dserodio@email.com

Roberto Zunino wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Shimpei Yamashita wrote:
> 
> > Just a few minutes ago, I noticed that my gnome-terminal windows no
> > longer closed automatically after I exited the shell. I'm pretty sure
> > that this wasn't the case originally because this highly unusual behavior
> > would have caught my attention right away. I tried deleting my
> > ~/.gnome/session file, all the gnome-terminal-a* file, and finally the
> > ~/.gnome/Terminal file. None of them helped.
> >
> > Interestingly enough, running gnome-terminal by itself (without
> > running gnome-session beforehand) in KDE does result in gnome-terminal
> > behaving correctly--i.e., the window goes away as soon as I'm done
> > with it. So it has something to do with Gnome<->gnome-terminal
> > interaction, although I haven't the slightest clue what that may be.
> >
> > I'm using the precompiled Gnome RPM from Apr 14.
> 
> Are you running GDM ? If you are this may be the cause of your problem.
> Try running gnome with startx (no GDM) and run gnome-terminal: if it
> doesn't hang then the problem is GDM.
> 
> Workarounds:
> 1) Don't use GDM :-(
> 2) Modify menus, launchers, etc. etc. to use "gnome-terminal &" instead of
> "gnome-terminal" (tip by Adam Alexander)
> 3) Recompile yourself GDM and apply the patch I sent to this list few days
> ago. (If you want to do this and can't find it, write me).
> 
> This is not fixed on CVS since I didn't get reply from the maintainer
> (even if I Cc:'ed him). I will try again.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> Zun.
> 
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