From: Lg Lg <lisien.gjoncaj@...>
Date: 2010-08-17T13:11:01+09:00
Subject: Killing a gnome-terminal process from a ruby script

Hello:

I'm working on a dialog manager and I'm stuck at the part where I need
to launch a terminal process and also kill it.
This is what I have so far.

Launch:
  @terminal_pid = IO.popen('gnome-terminal')
Kill
  Process.kill :SIGTERM, @terminal_pid.pid if !@terminal_pid.nil?

That method seems to work for stuff such as google-chrome, gcalctool,
pidgin, however it has no effect on gnome-terminal nor gedit.

The Ruby script runs within a terminal window itself so I have no
interest in "kill -9 'gnome-terminal'". I am trying to kill only that
specific @terminal_pid

Can anyone explain what is going on or a way of fixing it?

Thank you in advance!

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