Bug 197875

Summary: konsole kill my background process if I don't close konsole with exit
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: sts
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: mick22
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description sts 2009-06-25 20:35:08 UTC
Version:           2.3 (using 4.2.90 (KDE 4.2.90 (KDE 4.3 Beta2)) "release 139", KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop / openSUSE_11.1)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.27.23-0.1-default

I'm not sure it's a bug or a feature?

I open konsole enter ./skype & and close konsole with alt+f4 or with menubar..it kills my skype
Comment 1 Michael Meier 2009-06-26 07:43:39 UTC
If the shell is closed, it sends child processes a hangup signal. This has nothing to do with konsole or any other terminal emulator.

Start skype like this: "nohup sykpe &"
Comment 2 Matthew Woehlke 2009-06-26 18:20:40 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 185140 ***