Getting a terminal window?

[davvanc]

If I recall correctly, in El Capitan when you clicked on the Terminal icon in the dock, a shell window just opened up by default.
Now in Sierra 10.12.4, I have to click on the Shell menu and select new.
Is that a setting somewhere?

 

[BLUEDOG314]

This isn't an issue for me. Perhaps try deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist and see what happens after a reboot.

 

[Analog Kid]

If I recall correctly, in El Capitan when you clicked on the Terminal icon in the dock, a shell window just opened up by default.
Now in Sierra 10.12.4, I have to click on the Shell menu and select new.
Is that a setting somewhere?

I get a window open automatically. Looking at the preferences, it looks like your choices on startup are to open a window or a window group-- I don't see a preference to not open anything. I agree with @BLUEDOG314, there's probably something wrong with your config.

I've had problems with other applications opening windows off screen if I change between my laptop display, an external display, or dual display. Could that be happening?

 

[davvanc]

This isn't an issue for me. Perhaps try deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist and see what happens after a reboot.

Tried that, no change. Even tried rebooting from a backup El Capitan partition, same thing happens. It is not a big deal as clicking on the Shell/New Window menu opens up a window.
Still, something isn't right.

 

[mfram]

Are you actually quitting Terminal.app with Apple-Q or are you just closing the terminal window? Closing the terminal window will not quit Terminal.app.

 

[davvanc]

Are you actually quitting Terminal.app with Apple-Q or are you just closing the terminal window? Closing the terminal window will not quit Terminal.app.

Of course, I am actually quitting the app, with Apple-Q. The issue is it does not respect its own prefences, ie., to open a shell window by default on startup.
Happens in both El Cap and Sierra.