Has anyone else been as annoyed as I am about this dialog? Every time I close a terminal which has a running child process, rather than the terminal closing and the child process(es) getting killed, gnome-terminal tries to protect:
I’m not unlike any other user: I don’t like unnecessary dialogs.
However as I’ve discovered, there is a fix! Open up gconf-editor (Configuration Editor, not that you can find it on many menu systems these days) and browse to /apps/gnome-terminal/global and uncheck the confirm_window_close key.
Now you may return to killing your numerous terminals the way you’ve always enjoyed.
It is a nice feature IMHO.
It prevents you from closing a running console application.
If you are running a dumb child process, you should better of closing it cleanly rather than the hard way.
Thank you. Just what I needed :)
I agree it should default to disabled. It must be obvious even to complete idiot that closing the window will terminate the content.
I strongly disagree.
It saved my ass a few times. In particular when I left something in background (Ctrl+Z).
Since “Close without saving” is a bad default choice for a word processor, “Kill child processes” is a bad default choice for a terminal too.