Re: gnome-terminal application launcher and wget background running

2008-11-28 Thread H.S.
Marco Romano wrote: > > It's a wget feature: > http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Signals.html#Signals Ah! Thank you. This clarifies a lot. However ... > When you close a gnome-terminal it sends a SIGHUP to the shell which in > turn do the same with its child processes (wget incl

Re: gnome-terminal application launcher and wget background running

2008-11-28 Thread Marco Romano
H.S. has written: I then tried the same thing in KDE where konsole opens. In this case though closing the konsole also quits wget. So this works okay. So on the surface it appears to be a problem in Gnome ... or a feature. Any tips how this can be explained or where the problem is? It's

gnome-terminal application launcher and wget background running

2008-11-28 Thread H.S.
Hello, I am trying out the application launcher in gnome. If I create an application launcher that starts with a wget command (while /not/ using the "-b" option), it starts off okay: the gnome-terminal opens and wget starts working. However, if I close that gnome terminal, wget appears to continu