The reported misbehaviour is peculiar to the terminal emulator lxterminal(1), almost certainly due to the fact that wmii_3.9.2+debian-3 is encapsulating the terminal invocation inside setsid(1). A standard emulator like lxterm(1), i.e., the locale-sensing wrapper for xterm(1), does not exhibit this failure.
The use of lxterminal(1) presently leaves a zombie: $ ps ax | grep term 28189 ? Ssl 0:00 lxterminal 28190 ? Z 0:00 [lxterminal] <defunct> 29090 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/grep term The use of lxterm(1) will not leave a zombie process behind in that manner. Best regards, Mats Erik Andersson, DM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org