gnome-terminal forks even with `--disable-factory`
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Manual states:
--disable-factory
Do not register with the activation name server, do not re-use an
active terminal.
Yet terminal opens and "foo" is being printed immediately even though the terminal didn't close:
$ gnome-terminal --disable-factory; echo foo
foo
```
This behavior was different in the past and doesn't seem "normal" for a Linux application, e.g. it now prevents using gnome-terminal as a `vim` wrapper for an external editor. Usually Linux applications are manually forked with ampersand and as far as I understand it still should be possible with a `--disable-factory` argument.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.14.2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Aug 31 16:11:37 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-06 (571 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20131219)
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-30 (122 days ago)
Seems to be working in GNOME Terminal 3.18.2. Current manual misses this description entirely, I wouldn't know if I didn't try.