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linux42day

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Registered: 2014-10-13

Posts: 2

My program delay on exit! Why?

I don't know why some program such as Gimp, Deadbeef or Sublime-Text take about 1.5 or 2 seconds to close. I have tried to run it in terminal, there is not other error ouput except missing GTK theme "adwaita". My Arch is up to date and it work perfect except this problem! Could any one please tell me how to solve this problem?

phw

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Registered: 2013-05-27

Posts: 318

Re: My program delay on exit! Why?

That could be absolutely normal. It's common for programs that they need to do some work before they close (e.g. some cleanup of temporary files, persisting the current session or configuration etc.). For me Gimp takes a second or two to close on every platform I've run it on so far. Sublime closes instantly for me most of the times, though. But I know that it persists it's current state on close, that could be the reason. Firefox also is known to take some time to completely shutdown (I think it hides the Window pretty fast, but it sometimes runs a few seconds in the background before it is finished).