Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:36:43 -0800
> walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 11:58:07 -0800
>>>walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>>>>When I start xterm from a gnome-terminal window instead of from the
>>>>gnome-panel it works fine.
>>
>>>But even from the run dialog it works fine.
>>
>>I notice that a normally working xterm closes with a signal 15, but
>>when started from the run dialog it ignores signal 15 and requires
>>signal 9.
> 
> 
> Which shell are you using?

bash2 installed from the port.  (I just recompiled bash2 and it made no
difference.)

As a source of amusement, I found that I can start xkill from xterm and
close the xterm using xkill.  Seems very incestuous, somehow ;o)