mate-terminal closes unexpectedly when program does not exist is called

[malheum]

Hello,

I noticed this strange behaviour. I am running Linux Mint 13 Maya 64 bits. I am using the German locale.

Out of old habit I typed "gedit &" in mate-terminal and then surprisingly mate-terminal's window disappeared.

After investigating I found out that this just happens in one particular directory.
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mx@tuxtux:/home/mx/Downloads/linuxcnc-dev/src/emc/rs274ngc$> ls -laF
insgesamt 960
drwxr-xr-x 2 mx mx 4096 Mai 13 12:06 ./
drwxr-xr-x 14 mx mx 4096 Mai 13 12:06 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 5091 Mai 13 12:06 array1.hh
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 11003 Mai 13 12:06 canonmodule.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 36137 Mai 13 12:06 gcodemodule.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 16238 Mai 13 12:06 interp_arc.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 13694 Mai 13 12:06 interp_array.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 984 Mai 13 12:06 interp_array_types.hh
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 1207 Mai 13 12:06 interp_base.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 1574 Mai 13 12:06 interp_base.hh
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 14037 Mai 13 12:06 interp_check.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 205583 Mai 13 12:06 interp_convert.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 79747 Mai 13 12:06 interp_cycles.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 11731 Mai 13 12:06 interp_execute.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 26772 Mai 13 12:06 interp_find.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 14929 Mai 13 12:06 interp_internal.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 30712 Mai 13 12:06 interp_internal.hh
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 4806 Mai 13 12:06 interp_inverse.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 16288 Mai 13 12:06 interpmodule.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 24962 Mai 13 12:06 interp_namedparams.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 34497 Mai 13 12:06 interp_o_word.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 8977 Mai 13 12:06 interp_python.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 23904 Mai 13 12:06 interp_queue.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 4247 Mai 13 12:06 interp_queue.hh
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 118609 Mai 13 12:06 interp_read.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 17164 Mai 13 12:06 interp_remap.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 6689 Mai 13 12:06 interp_write.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 3698 Mai 13 12:06 nurbs_additional_functions.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 333 Mai 13 12:06 paramclass.hh
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 1294 Mai 13 12:06 pyarrays.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 4528 Mai 13 12:06 pyblock.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 2936 Mai 13 12:06 pyemctypes.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 3647 Mai 13 12:06 pyinterp1.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 3424 Mai 13 12:06 pyparamclass.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 2682 Mai 13 12:06 rs274ngc.hh
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 28653 Mai 13 12:06 rs274ngc_interp.hh
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 82476 Mai 13 12:06 rs274ngc_pre.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 15751 Mai 13 12:06 rs274ngc_return.hh
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 1521 Mai 13 12:06 Submakefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 9020 Mai 13 12:06 tool_parse.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 1142 Mai 13 12:06 tool_parse.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 mx mx 1582 Mai 13 12:06 units.h
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Now when I type in bash in this directory
gedit &
then the mate-terminal window disappears without any further message.

In any other directory I get the expected behaviour:
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mx@tuxtux:/home/mx$> gedit &
[1] 13646
mx@tuxtux:/home/mx$> Die Anwendung »gedit« ist momentan nicht installiert. Sie können sie durch folgende Eingabe installieren:
sudo apt-get install gedit
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Installed are these mate-terminal packages:
ii mate-terminal 1.6.1-1+precise MATE terminal emulator application
ii mate-terminal-common 1.6.1-1+precise MATE terminal emulator application (common files)

The sources are from the linuxcnc project. You can get them by issueing this command ( some ~130 MB )
git clone git://git.linuxcnc.org/git/linuxcnc.git linuxcnc-dev

The thing is that the mate-terminal window should not disappear simply because I am trying to run a program in one directory that is not installed at all. The expected behaviour is to tell the use that the application is not installed