On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:23 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote:
> Ever since I upgraded all my systems to CentOS 5.1 I have been
> getting reports from users about "all their windows disappearing". A
> little digging revealed that they meant all gnome-terminal windows.
> Since there is only one gnome-terminal process by default for all
> your open terminal windows and tabs, a crash of that process means
> losing all your terminal windows. These crashes often (but not
> always) occur over night when the system is otherwise idle.
>
> A quick Google search found a problem on Ubuntu related to VTE (the
> terminal emulator widget used by gnome-terminal) but not much else of
> interest. Has anyone on this list experienced this? I find it hard
> to believe I'm the only one. I never saw this issue while running
> CentOS 4.X on these systems...
>
> Alfred
>
I've seen extreme slow gnome terminals in the past on Cent 5, I even
downgraded the package for the terminal to make it work better.
Never had it close randomly. I have however had applications randomly
close other then the terminal.
Gregg.
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