Bug#533162: gnome-terminal: gnome terminal complains when exiting with a running ssh session

[Terry Watt]

> When closing a gnome-terminal through the window manage close button
> while running a ssh session it requires a highly annoying confirmation
> to really close it.  This makes gnome-terminal unuseable for managing
> lots of temporary remote ssh sessions.  Before the last update from the
> testing repositories this behaviour was not present.
>   
You can disable this behavior by turning off confirm_window_close in 
gconf (apps/gnome-terminal/global).  The description of this key still 
refers to only asking for confirmation when more than one tab is open, 
but now also apparently controls confirmation when a program is still 
running in the terminal.  This is particularly annoying for terminals 
opened using nautilus-open-terminal, because every session "has a 
running program" and so must be confirmed to exit.  However, I think 
this is probably a minor item, since it can be turned off.  I see the 
bug either in the gconf key description or in the default behavior, 
rather than the fact that the prompt itself exists.