gnome-terminal window on startup

[James Michael Fultz]

* Steve Zatz <slzatz at gmail.com> [2009-10-04 09:52 -0400]:
> Using 9.04, I get a gnome-terminal window at startup that happens to
> have no title bar so it can't be dragged but is located in the upper
> left "attached" to the main Ubuntu top menu/icon bar.  [...]

First, does it have no titlebar or does the top panel simply cover it?
In either case, you can drag the window by holding Alt and clicking
anywhere within the window to drag it.

> I've looked and can't figure out how this is happening on startup and
> am not sure how to prevent this behavior.  Any advice would be
> appreciated.

Nothing apparent in Startup Applications Preferences (System >
Preferences > Startup Applications)?  You could try renaming
'~/.config/autostart' before your next login.  If the GNOME Terminal
window doesn't reappear, you'll know it's something in there.  If that
works, you can rename the directory to its original name and try
narrowing it down to which desktop entry file (*.desktop) contained
therein is the culprit.