[desktop-discuss] New Gnome terminal

[Calum Benson]

On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 15:57 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Calum Benson wrote:
> > A better fix would probably be to have gnome-terminal to pop up an alert
> > if the shell you were about to close still had child processes
> > running... the terminal on OS X manages to do this, so maybe it's
> > possible for us too.
> 
> Should be able to do something similar to what the ptree command does to
> check for child processes.  

Cool.

> I'd definitely want to be able to click just once to close all terminals
> at logout time and not have to answer once for every terminal tab I have open.

Totally agree... the current "close all tabs" functionality (an alert
that pops up when you click the terminal window's Close button-- should
probably have a menu item/shortcut too, although it doesn't currently)
could accommodate that fairly easily, I think.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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