On 8/28/07, Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Well, either that or change the SIGHUP handling to leave existing jobs > alone. I actually tend towards liking that stuff I fire up into the > background survives closing the terminal (as under BeOS). I REALLY think that stuff started in the background from the shell should survive the shell closing. In regards to your original question, I believe closing the window and typing exit should have the same behavior. In this case the behavior of exit. > It would also > avoid risking data loss (imagine you started an editor into the > background). But I suppose it mainly depends on what you're used to... I think the least surprising thing is to leave background processes alone. All systems I've used have worked this way, AFAIK. Ryan