id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,distribution,status_field 2756,"""Become Root"" button in Terminal Activity kills anything running in current Terminal session",greenfeld,sayamindu,"The ""Become Root"" button in the Terminal Activity kills anything running in the currently active Terminal session window. I'm not so certain if this is a good idea or not. Since all it does is run ""su -"", why can't we let people run ""su"" manually? A side effect is that if you exit the root shell prompt, the Terminal window closes. This is somewhat unexpected if you were trying to get back to the normal user of the terminal. Reproduction: 1. Run something which runs until exited like ""top"", etc. in a Terminal session. 2. Press the ""Become Root"" button. Whatever was previously running from Step 1 has been killed off, and you will have a Bash root shell prompt {or hopefully asked for the password to one if so configured for your system}. Seen with Terminal-31 in OLPC OS 11.2.0 os14.",defect,closed,Unspecified by Maintainer,Unspecified,Terminal,0.92.x,Minor,fixed,,,OLPC,Unconfirmed