I have just been looking for an OpenEXR viewer, tried out tev on NixOS and started it from the shell with a Multilayer EXR image as argument, but when I close the window, the program just stays running until I kill it:
$ tev ./0047.exr
11:12:50 SUCCESS Initialized IPC, listening on 127.0.0.1:14158
11:12:50 INFO Launching with 8 bits of color and LDR display support.
11:12:50 SUCCESS Loaded /home/alex/uni/masterarbeit/impl/datasets/table/output/./0047.exr via OpenEXR after 0.061 seconds.
^C^C
$ tev --version
tev — The EXR Viewer
version 1.26 (64 bit)