How to disable GNOME Console "Close Window?" prompt?

Question

Please note: This is about GNOME Console, not GNOME Terminal.

How do I stop these prompts from appearing when closing GNOME Console?

(In my case, the window is also misleading. It appears even when the background process is disowned. Disowned processes are no longer children of the original shell, so they survive closing the terminal just fine.)

@TomYan What do you mean? Pressing Ctrl-d does not disable this feature. — l0b0, Nov 13 '23 at 10:03
I mean, exiting (all) the shell(s) (instead of closing the terminal window via the close button or shortcut) should get the terminal window closed without this prompt shown, no? Or, do you want to avoid the prompt regardless of whether there are still shells? — Tom Yan, Nov 13 '23 at 10:09
This window pops up when I press Ctrl-d to terminate the Bash session which spawned the other process. — l0b0, Nov 13 '23 at 10:56
This seems an already reported bug, or maybe should be reported. If it is a bug, AFAIK it is out of scope here — Pablo A, Nov 16 '23 at 22:52
Also, the question is whether there is some way to disable this feature, irrespective of whether my particular use case triggers a bug. — l0b0, Nov 17 '23 at 01:39
Don't you get any entry via gconf-editor enabling you to disable confirm_window_close as it would be possible for gnome-terminal app. ? — MC68020, Nov 18 '23 at 14:27

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 18 '23 at 16:40

Mind going into the code ? (since I did not manage to find any sort of accessible parameter to avoid the closing confirm window.)
First try : Quick and Dirty way just to see if its works according to what you wish.

Reading kgx_window.c from line 155 , roughly :

kgx_window_close_request (GtkWindow *window)
{
…
  children = kgx_pages_get_children (KGX_PAGES (priv->pages));
  if (children->len < 1 || priv->close_anyway) {
    if (gtk_window_is_active (GTK_WINDOW (self))) {
      …}
    return FALSE; /* Aka no, I don’t want to block closing */}
dlg = g_object_new (KGX_TYPE_CLOSE_DIALOG,
                      "context", KGX_CONTEXT_WINDOW,
                      "commands", children,
                      "transient-for", self,
                      NULL);
  kgx_close_dialog_run (dlg, NULL, got_close, g_object_ref (self));
  return TRUE; /* Block the close */}

We understand that we might be able to always bypass the close confirmation window if kgx_window_close_request always returns FALSE.

I would therefore suggest to comment out :

Line 164 ( if (children->len < 1 || priv->close_anyway) { )
Line 169 (the associated closing brace.)

Note that it would certainly be preferable to just force priv->close_anyway to TRUE since the confirmation would also be skipped as also specified at the beginning of the code :

KgxWindow: * @close_anyway: ignore running children and close without prompt

but I had no time to find my way to force this.

Behold the awesome power of Nix! Ehem. There seemed to be one other place I had to modify to get this to work, but thank you very much for the idea! — l0b0, Nov 18 '23 at 21:26
@l0b0 : Good catch ! I had not considered kgx-pages.c ! My bad ! Nevermind, I keep on thinking that the clean way would be to go with the setting of close_anyway via some tuneable. Happy it fits your purpose & thanks for the bounty. — MC68020, Nov 18 '23 at 22:16

How to disable GNOME Console "Close Window?" prompt?

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