Re: gnome-terminal not closing after "exit"

[Roberto Zunino <zunino cli di unipi it>]

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.