From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: On page 18, Chapter 1 "Getting Started", the fourth paragraph says that the user can exit a terminal window if they "...type exit at the prompt, or press [Ctrl]-[D] at the prompt." This does not work in the default terminal window for GNOME, gnome-terminal 2.0.1. Instead the user can either select 'Close Window' from the 'File' menu or type [Ctrl]-[Shift]-[Q], in addition to clicking on the 'X' button. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhl-gsg(EN)-8.0-Print-RHI (2002-08-20T12:16-0400) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Read page 18 of the Getting Started manual. 2. 3. Additional info:
I have just quickly checked the instructions available on the Getting started guide. I am running the standard install with the GNOME desktop. As far as I am aware I have performed no alterations to my set-up as far as the terminal window is concerned (Accessed By RedHat -> System Tools -> Terminal). From what I can see the instructions included work fine, CTRL + D and exit both work with out a hitch. CTRL + SHIFT + Q also work as does clicking the X button and of course selecting Close Window from the File menu. Hope this is of use. Doug
Please provide more specifics. What version of gnome terminal? What version of Red Hat Linux? Which "standard" installation did you choose? There is no single standard installation. There are several standard installations. I chose the 'Workstation' standard installation. I have never used gnome terminal before RH 8.0, so I did not have any settings other than the ones Red Hat provides.
I have tested the graphical (GNOME) terminal (Main Menu => System Tools => Terminal) behavior using a "Workstation" installation of Red Hat Linux 8.0 and it is dismissed with both the 'exit' command and [ctrl]-[d] shortcut. The documentation is correct using a Workstation installation of Red Hat Linux 8.0. Some suggestions: Note any errors you receive when you type 'exit' (or press [ctrl]-[d]) at the GNOME terminal. Make sure you have not assigned another system behavior to [ctrl]-[d] in Main Menu => Preferences => Keyboard Shortcuts that may affect the terminal exit shortcut. In some instances (but not often), a custom keyboard layout (for example, to map a nationalized keyboard) can cause alternate behaviors from the default English keyboard layout. Please feel free to add to this bug report if you find a resolution; however I am closing it because the instructions documented are correct. Thanks to all for your input.
I tried using 'exit' early on (that has been my traditional way for dismissing a terminal window). When it did not work, I tried Ctrl-D. Both cause the window to "flash" (as though it is shutting down and restarting). I thought it might be a new feature in gnome-terminal, as opposed to the traditional xterm, that had been added to prevent users from accidentally dismissing their windows. Because you say that this is not the expected behavior, I agree that this bug report should be closed. I will return to this bug report if I discover what is causing the behavior of gnome-terminal that I am seeing.