saturnian Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) Most of the time, I use the exit command to close a virtual terminal emulator window. Any reason not to use the "close" button instead? I mean, if there's no command still running. Hm, or Ctrl+D is another way to do it, looks like. Edit: Dang it, I mean to type "terminal emulator." Possible to change the title of this thread? Edited July 12, 2018 by saturnian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 I use the sudo -i command to get root access for updates and dist-upgrades. If I use the close button in root I get static about processes still running, whereas if I exit from the command line I do not. So I usually just exit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 (edited) I think I'll just start using Ctrl+D instead of typing exit or using the "close" button. https://unix.stackex...-or-using-ctrld Edited July 12, 2018 by saturnian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 Please, can the word "virtual" be replaced with "terminal" in the title? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Doesn't really matter which you use. I do Ctrl-D if my hands are on the keyboard, Close button if on the mouse (if there's a process running, a box will pop up and just select Close Anyway). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturnian Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 Thanks for the replies, folks. I didn't do a very good job with web searches at first but I get the picture now, I think. I've been using "exit" almost all the time for so long without even thinking much about it. Lol, the reason I even thought about how often I was using "exit" was because a few weeks ago I stumbled upon one of those commands for showing a list of which commands I use most frequently. Can't recall where I saw that originally but it was like some of the commands shown here: https://askubuntu.co...nds-in-terminal And, exit has been my most frequently used command! That's what got me wondering... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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