CTRL+D sends EOF to the shell, indicating the end of input, so the shell exits, which causes gnome-terminal to exit. You can verify this by running another bash session in the terminal:
bash then press CTRL+D. That instance of bash will exit but gnome-terminal will remain open. Another example, and probably the most common one on ubuntu systems is running a python interactive shell. If you type exit it will echo: Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit I am going to mark this bug as invalid, if you feel there really is a bug here, feel free to reopen. ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1000317 Title: CTRL+D exits terminal To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1000317/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs