Re: applications quit with gnome-terminal

[Jacob Berkman <jacob helixcode com>]

Mate Wierdl <mw@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu> writes:

> I am not sure this is not intentional, but certainly a confusing
> behavior:
> 
> In short, some applications started from gnome-terminal exit when
> gnome-terminal exits.
> 
> For example, if I start an Emacs from a gnome-terminal, and then exit
> the gnome-terminal, Emacs also exits.  The same happens if I start a
> gnome-terminal from the gnome-terminal.
> 
> The only *good* application I found was xterm.  Indeed, and xterm
> started from a GT does not exist when GT exits.
> 
> Can this behavior be changed?

Something similar to this was filed in Red Hat's bugzilla, and hp
forwarded it up to GNOME's BTS a couple of days ago:

http://bugs.gnome.org/db/11/11322.html

I have a fix for this, but the emacs behaviour still seems to happen,
which I'll look into.

Jacob
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