Continue tasks in background when window is closed

[Cassidy James Blaede]

If tasks in the terminal are executing, the terminal app should continue tasks in the background when its window is closed. This way users can safely close the window and open it to come back to it later. If the task completes, the app should quit completely.

This helps further push us into the app-resumes-where-it-left-off territory and makes it so users can close the app at any time while allowing the task to continue, much like Noise.

If developers want an option to kill tasks when the window is closed, that could be a possibility.

[Hlobil Vaclav (vaclav-hlobil)]

So, in this way, you just simply mask close button as minimize button? And user can much more likely to forgot about running processes in background (in minimized terminals)? Isn't it in a direct opposite of your argument, that minimized apps consume resources?

[liamdawe (liamdawe)]

How will you handle showing the background running has finished? As above its now just masking close as minimize.

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Ideally there would be a seperation of the app UI/window and the process itself. So closing the window would close the window (not mask it as minimize). Then when the process is done, it could shoot a notification.

[Zisu Andrei (matzipan)]

I can think of at least one use case where this might not work: when an ssh session hangs.

[Zisu Andrei (matzipan)]

Actually wait, for hanging SSH sessions, you can just close the tab.

[Abhinav Madahar (abhinavmadahar)]

To make a command COMMAND run even if you close the terminal and sign out, run

> nohup COMMAND &