Closing terminal which are not running commands without a prompt

Question

Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 16.10 (Unity) alongside Windows 10 which was already installed.

I found myself using a terminal a lot, but there is something which kinda bugs me: even if no command is running, if I'm logged in as root (I mean after typing sudo su and then my password) when I want to close the terminal it will prompt me with this

How can I close it without that message popping up? I want it to pop up only if the terminal is executing some command.

Well it is saying that message because sudo su is a process, so I don't know! — Ubuntu User, Feb 04 '17 at 12:55
It is executing a command sudo su so its supposed to ask before closing the terminal. Don't wan to see it then do exit then close terminal. — George Udosen, Feb 04 '17 at 12:59

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 04 '17 at 13:13

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Something is running. su is running. You can verify if you have a clean terminal with everything closed by typing exit at the prompt.

If you exit out of su, then you can close it without getting the process running on this terminal, prompt.

If a process is running, just keep executing exit until all the processes are closed.

answered Feb 04 '17 at 13:13

L. D. James

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Thanks I had no idea it was identifiable as a process – Tommaso Thea Feb 04 '17 at 17:59

Closing terminal which are not running commands without a prompt

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