Comment #1 is correct. This is the intended behaviour of the system.
When you start a process it is always as a child of another, usually
some session. Graphically, you log in to a desktop session. When you
start gnome-terminal you are beginning a separate shell session and any
programs started in that terminal belong to the shell session [1].
There are good reasons for this design.
Any program can be started in the desktop session, without needing a
menu entry. For example, GNOME provides the run program dialog (ALT-F2)
for this purpose. If you desire a program to last for the duration of
the desktop session, start it using the run dialog and *not* from gnome-
terminal.
[1] Some programs apparently take measures to escape from the shell
session so that they appear to run in the desktop-session. These are
exceptional and should not be considered the norm. If you start a
program from a shell session you should expect that it will remain under
the control of that shell.
** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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Commands in the background are terminated after closing the terminal
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