Ubuntu
gnome-terminal package

  1. Bug #819842
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 819842

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Joe Burgess (joemburgess) wrote :

Using the & symbol backgrounds the task in that shell session. Even though they are backgrounded, they are still connected to the shell and will die when you kill the shell.

Doesn't this happen in other versions of ubuntu?