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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – wanted to use the kill command to exit from the gnome termial....wanted to kill the terminal....i decided to use the kill command from the terminal, and i used the pid number for my gnome terminal, got it from the top command.., and priority 1 , and used the -s option,....kill -s......it killed the gnome terminal i was using, but it also eliminated my tabs ontop of the desktop, so i could not get into the terminal again....when i rebooted, it complete changed the gnome desktop, back to where the menu was years ago...i was using fed 17.....what happen, and how do i get fed 17 back to default de (HowTos)

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Submitted by leex on 09/04/2012

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If I begin a process and background it in a terminal window (say ping google.com &), I can kill it using kill %1 (assuming it is job 1).

However if I open another terminal window (or tab) the backgrounded process is not listed under jobs and cannot be killed directly using kill.

From what I understand, SIGKILL cannot be caught. This would imply that a process does not have time to kill it's children before the OS destroys it. This can be demonstrated with a shell script.

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GNOME default terminal 1 year 10 weeks ago

I want to change default terminal to lilyterm. Here is instructions that I've found on the internet

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec lilyterm gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec-arg ""

But when I'm pressing shotcut, that must run default termial -- I'm getting

Windows manager warning: Error on terminal command"(null)".

I'm trying to launch one command in a new gnome-terminal window from a shell script, and it seems that my .bashrc file doesn't get sourced when calling gnome-terminal and executing a command:

gnome-terminal -t "my title" -e vim

But it does when launching gnome-terminal alone:

gnome-terminal -t "my title"

(for testing purposes, just add a echo "something" to the end of the .bashrc)

I also tr

I am running Fedora 17 gnome (shell) 3 and gnome terminal 3.4.1.1.

I am a user of both gnome-terminal and midnight commander. As default gnome-terminal has always used F10 (which I need while using mc), to opening the top menu. So was this time.

I have a program which is supposed to handle SIGINT and gracefully shut down. When I run this program from a terminal without backgrounding it I can shut it down just fine using Ctrl-C. Inspecting the logs shows that everything worked as expected.

When I open a separate terminal and call kill -2 [pid] or kill -s INT [pid] it does nothing.

I was explaining to a friend that the graphical interface in Linux is a separate program that can be killed like any other. To demonstrate that I switched to tty1 and tried to kill the GUI (as a real-life scenario of when the GUI freezes or crashes).

how to run a run a shell script in background even if i exit the terminal or logout,

the process end only when i kill with command kill

How do you send a lost signal with the kill process command?

I have tried all of them I thought but still cannot figure this out. Any help is greatly appreciated.

To send signals to the program, launch another terminal window and enter the command kill -3 1111 where 1111 is replaced with the process ID reported by sigCatch. What does sigCatch report?