William Ballard wrote: > When I exit X or reboot from within X with shutdown, whatever running > programs are sort of rudely hung up. Gnome apps and Mozilla that seem > to save state at File|Quit don't appear to. Also sometimes my FGLRX > driver appears to lock up when I abruptly exit X (have to hard boot -- > can't switch to different virtual terminal). > > Is there a way to run a script before X exits, so that I can more > gracefully quit apps? More like Windows; although rude apps such as > Outlook can "hang" quitting.
Think of the problem like this. Is there a way to enumerate all of the programs that you are running and how to shut them down gracefully? Something like a central registry? Every program will be uniquely different. Then the system shutdown could know how to shut those programs down. But without it there is no way for shutdown to know. But if you lobby for registry then you have to get all of the authors and maintainers to support that for every program that you might run. Very unlikely. Best to log out before shutting down. Then all of your applications are in a known state. Bob
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