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How to tell when Terminal will prompt before closing window Apps
Just noticed this a few minutes ago. Have you ever wondered why some Terminal windows have a dot in their red Close button while others don't? As it turns out, the dot appears when you are running a program that will cause Terminal to warn you before closing. By default, this includes all programs except rlogin, slogin, ssh, and telnet.
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How to tell when Terminal will prompt before closing window
Authored by: Auricchio on May 06, '03 11:10:51AM

I never noticed that.

From what I can tell, the dot appears any time you are running
a shell process for which the shell is waiting (i.e. a foreground
job).

Try things like "sleep 10" and you'll see.

If there's a process running other than the shell, Terminal will
warn you, as you've observed.

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How to tell when Terminal will prompt before closing window
Authored by: Cormacolinde on May 06, '03 11:17:41AM

Note that you can see that list and change it in a very
convenient place: in the Terminal Window Settings preferences.
Choose the Processes tab, and you can easily see the list, as
well as add or remove from it. By default it only applies to the
current window, but you can make your settings the default.



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How to tell when Terminal will prompt before closing window
Authored by: Akira on May 06, '03 11:33:39AM

sorry but dûh!

I mean it's just the same as a prompt if you want to safe your
changed textedit file etc. (you see a dot in the close button
when you altered the textfile after the last save)



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