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[Travis Watkins]

On 5/2/06, Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 on this.  The biggest difference for me is that running in a
> terminal leaves the terminal window which:
> * clutters the workspace (a bit)
> * is confusing when someone sees their new window and thinks they can
> close the terminal (which they could, but only if they knew to "&
> disown" the command).
>
> Ideally, I'd say this type of thing should be a part of the Run
> dialog, but in the meantime, this is a useful command/menu entry.
>

Worse than that, even if you use & you also have to know to type
'exit' to close the terminal instead of just clicking the x, otherwise
your program will still close.

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Travis Watkins
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