Dev-cpp is not a console application, though it can invoke one to display its compiled content. Why do you need to run Dev-cpp? Linux has tons of development environments, you know, so it's not recommended you try to use a Windows-native one. Have you tried running the program itself in a terminal? That would usually give you some output with which you can determine if the program crashed, or at least closed (you get thrown back to the terminal waiting for your input).