Why does this status-less terminal window will not close itself on desktop?

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#1

Hello,

Am running Ubuntu MATE 16.04 but have also ran into this issue in the past simply running Ubuntu. What happened is: I pressed a key and now I am stuck with a terminal screen that will not go away (in MATE Desktop). I would further add that this terminal screen does NOT have any close buttons nor can I resize/move it using my mouse.

This is fairly annoying as pressing CTRL+D to close it just refreshes the CLI prompt and this spawns on my 2 desktops. The only positive thing that I was able to do was unmaximize it using F11.

A note worthy to mention is that my default terminal is Terminator and that instance I am having trouble with is NOT it (Hence it wasn’t started using CTRL+ALT+T).

I feel kind of stupid having to logoff to fix this, did anybody ever ran into that issue and was able to fix it?

Thanks,

DLS

PS: I would add a screenshot but it seems that I am also too dumb to figure out how to attach one :slight_smile:

#2

It's Tilda.

You should be able to get it to go away by pressing F1 key.

If you don't want Tilda, go to System!Preferences!Personal!Startup Applications and uncheck the box for Tilda.

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#3

If you’re on 16.10, there is also an option in MATE Tweak which allows you to disable the “pull-down terminal”.

#4

Thanks a bunch guys for your useful replies.

So (re)pressing F1 didn’t worked out for me, I had to kill the PID of Tilda.

That being said, I much appreciate now having it disabled as it’s always brought me more frustrations than none.

Cheers,

PS: How do we close this thread now?

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#5

I’m not a fan of the pull-down terminal either. It’s always a CTRL+ALT+T away.

No need - I marked @Dave_Barnes’ answer as the solution. (The green tick that’s hiding in the 3 dots)

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