Hi Willem,
Yep, feature not a bug! It's not unique to gnome-terminal; most apps these
days use a single instance for multiple windows,
indeed there have been a few apps that have been doing it for many years.
In many ways the problem is that xkill is too simple. The force quit shouldn't
happ
This isn't a bug. As Dave points out, gnome-terminal runs as a single
process (to do otherwise would make it very difficult to do things like
move tabs between windows etc).
xkill works by finding which PID a window belongs to and killing that.
Hence, running it on a single terminal window will ki
Hi Dave,
It sounds as though you are saying: It is not a bug, it is a feature.
And that the reason to do this, is reduce memory consumption.
However, I think this is something that is pretty annoying. And I do think this
might be weird for new users. Maybe the default should be the other way aroun
All gnome-terminals are by default a single process, and hence killing
that process kills the lot.
You can force a gnome-terminal into a separate instance by doing
gnome-terminal --disable-factory
Dave
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xkill kills all gnome-terminal instances
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/609089
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