Re: Gnome Terminal wont exit

[Hans-Detlev Fink <hdf pecos de>]

Have a look into gnome-list's April archive and search for a thread
'gdm and gnome-terminal'. There's a patch to gdm for this.

-Hans-




Edouard Lafargue wrote:
> 
> Patrick Colbeck <Pat.Colbeck@esc.azlan.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > When I type "exit" in a terminal the terminal isn't destroyed it just
> > sits there. You can kill it by using the window manager
> > (Enlightenment). This haoppens for Gnome Terminal and RXVT
> > etc. However it only happens if I start Gnome from GDM, if I use run
> > level 3 and run startx with just gnome-session in .xinitrc it all
> > works fine. Any ideas people ?
> >
> 
>  This has been happening to me  as well, with  rxvts, Window Maker and
>  the same setup. As far as I can tell, the terminals get confused when
>  there is no parent shell from which they are launched.
> 
>  For example, if your  .xinitrc is just  an executable file with "exec
>  gnome-session" in it, the terminals will  not exit.  But if the first
>  line is "#!/bin/sh" then the terminals are  able to exit. By the way,
>  I wonder if just putting  commands in a  file, and make it executable
>  without adding  a "#!/..."  at  the beginning  is good practice. What
>  are the pros and cons ?
> 
>  Does your  ".xinitrc" file start  with a  "#!/bin/sh" ?  If it is the
>  case, just  use  "XSession" in the  GDM  session chooser,  and things
>  should work alright...
> 
> Ed
> 
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