Re: Orderly shutdown of running programs when quitting X

2004-05-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems many apps treat an external close/quit signal as being more > like a `kill' than a `close gracefully'. > > I believe this is related to the problem of session management; maybe > looking for info on that may help? I think you nailed the bug

Re: Orderly shutdown of running programs when quitting X

2004-05-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 01:57:06PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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. > > Why n

Re: Orderly shutdown of running programs when quitting X

2004-05-16 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 08:02:15PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > I agree, however if he's sufficiently motivated, he could just build > something that reverses the output of "ps fax" and kills in that > order. I wouldn't use it but I imagine others might like it. I just wrote this: $ cat /x/x/ki

Re: Orderly shutdown of running programs when quitting X

2004-05-16 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 07:02:43PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Why are you exiting X? To boot into Windows to play Far Cry or edit .mpegs from my PVR using VideoRedo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Orderly shutdown of running programs when quitting X

2004-05-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Bob Proulx: > William Ballard wrote: > > > > 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. > > Best to log out before shutting down. Then all of your appl

Re: Orderly shutdown of running programs when quitting X

2004-05-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 16, 2004 at 09:02:06AM -0700, William Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 FG

Re: Orderly shutdown of running programs when quitting X

2004-05-16 Thread Bob Proulx
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

Re: Orderly shutdown of running programs when quitting X

2004-05-16 Thread Paul Johnson
William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. Why not just lock your console instead, or close the programs before you logout?

Re: Orderly shutdown of running programs when quitting X

2004-05-16 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 16 May 2004 12:02 pm, William Ballard wrote: > 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. I don't know if a way right off to build that into shutdown, but you cou