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Pandya
Asked: 2014-11-10 22:13:33 +0800 CST

xfce4-terminal closes without confirmation dialog

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Earlier, when I used to run unity in Ubuntu 14.04 gnome-terminal asks conformation dialog if any process is running in the shell when I click on close button as follows:

sure to close

But now I am using xfce4-terminal after installing the xubuntu-desktop environment in Xubuntu. And one problem is that in spite of processes running inside the terminal, it closes immediately while clicking on the close button instead of asking by confirmation dialog!

Consider I'm installing packages by apt-get and by-mistake if I click on close button then terminal close without confirmation! This does not seem OK.

So, is there any way to enable such type of confirmation dialog in xfce4-terminal?

xfce4-terminal

4 Answers

  1. I could not find any such option. The closest you can get is by opening multiple tabs, for which XFCE Terminal does ask for confirmation. The option governing this is MiscConfirmClose in ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc (which was set to TRUE by default in my system).

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  2. I doubt it. I just had a look through the available preferences and I don't see anything relevant. I also wouldn't expect it. This kind of confirmation dialogue is, IMO, exceedingly annoying. If I click on something, I clicked on something and I don't want my system to assume I don't know what I'm doing. If I didn't want to close the terminal I wouldn't have clicked on the little X button in the first place. This kind of hand-holding, "the user is an idiot who needs to be protected" is one of the things that annoy me most in the Windows world and I hate seeing it come to Linux.

    Anyway, rant over. If you really want this "feature", why not use gnome-terminal? There is no reason to use different terminal emulators with different desktop environments. For example, I use terminator which is based on gnome-terminal in both XFCE and Cinnamon. I have also used it in KDE, in Gnome and in WindowMaker.

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  3. You can switch MiscTabCloseButtons from TRUE to FALSE in ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc. Then if You wan to close tab, You need to click right mouse button and select "Close tab"

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  4. Add --hold at the end of xfce4 terminal launcher command

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