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

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:45:33AM -0400, Terry Watt wrote:
> 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.

I think the main problem is that there is no easy way to turn it off
in the gnome-terminal preferences - people can argue about defaults
forever, but a gconf key is not a sane way to switch it for a normal
user.

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