Comment 2 for bug 782333

The situation in which I encounter this is: I have some long-running scripts & aliases that include a "notify-send" message when they complete, using Dustin Kirkland's "alert" alias:
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/07/dear-command-line-please-ping-me-when.html

When I run these commands on a local machine inside of a terminal, everything's fine. But when I run them on a remote machine, then my command output ends with "aborting... Aborted." which is a bit scary. (took me a little while to figure out exactly what was aborting, too - at first I assumed it was the commands themselves, but no -- it was notify-send.)