When I close both windows of the skype application (under gnome), the skype-processes are still running. I guess this must be a bug. Gnome session management restarts these processes after logout & login, even though I closed the program before logout. It's clear that this is non-desired behaviour. The situation becomes even worse when one closes skype and starts it again in the same session. The session manager will start two instances of skype after logout & login. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start skype under gnome 2. close all it's windows 3. logout 4. login to that gnome-session again Actual Results: skype gets started automatically Expected Results: skype should terminate all it's processes when the user stops the application. Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi acpi4linux alsa atlas avi berkdb bonobo crypt cups dga directfb divx4linux doc dvd encode f77 fam fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mozilla moznocompose moznoirc mozplaintext mozsvg mpeg mpeg4 mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png pnp python readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff timidity truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
skype is a commercial written in QT with a crappy implementation of the notification area. You cannot kill skype by closing the windows, but have to choose exit from the notification area. So if htis should be fixed, its upstream or with the maintainer. recommendation: close/upstream
Agreed.