it seems that the gnome-control-center process doesnt kill on window- exit. killing the process from the terminal orphans gconfd-2 which has to be killed manually
-- gconfd-2 process doesnt die on gnome-control-centre close https://launchpad.net/bugs/78152 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs