Launching gnome-terminal always opens two windows

[Moritz Hut]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Ubuntu 8.04.1 (German)
gnome-terminal: Installiert:2.22.1-0ubuntu2

I've created a new profile "MyTestProfile", choosed "Use custom command" and typed "login" as custom command. Then I selected the new profile as the "Default profile" (when starting the application). From now on everytime I launched gnome-terminal from the panel it opened a window which disappeared immediately.

To change this behaviour I used gconf-editor to reset the key /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/MyTestProfile/custom_command. After the restart of gnome-terminal I got an error message pointing out, that the key did not have a value. But also got a new window where I removed the the profile "MyTestProfile" via the menu.

Now when launching gnome-terminal it opens two windows. The second window shows the normal prompt (mario@linux:~$) and works as usual. The first window has no prompt. It accepts keyboard input, but does not do anything. Except when typing control-c. Then it closes both of the two windows.

This remains also after reinstallation (not removing and then installation) of gnome-terminal via Synaptic.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 15 01:09:58 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

As this sounds like user error instead of a bug, I'm going to convert this in to a question