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I just recently upgraded from 10.6 to 10.8. On 10.6 I could set the terminal to close the tab/window when the shell exits.
Mountain Lion's terminal just says the process is completed and the tab/window stays open:
bash$ exit
logout
[Process completed]
I find this very annoying, but I no longer see the preference to change it.
Is there a way to set Mountain Lion's Terminal to close when its process exits?
The approach given here looks a little simpler—maybe it would work for you?
If you don't want to remember to type "quit" instead of "exit", and you're using bash, just add the following to your
.bashrcor other shell startup script:trap '/usr/bin/osascript -e "tell application \"terminal\" to quit"' 0What's it do? When the shell receives signal 0 (zero), that is, told to exit, it will execute this command as the last thing it does. This allows your shell, etc, to exit gracefully, and asking Terminal.app to exit via applescript makes sure it does the same. In other words, type 'exit', and your shell exits, then Terminal quits, all cleanly and the way nature intended.
I think the reason your terminal is acting up is that the default command has been changed somehow.
In preferences->Startup see what is set
I suspect that the Command is running something other than a shell. Change it back to Default login shell and all will be fine.
Best Answer
You can change this in Terminal's Preferences: