Re: gnome-session patch nag: change client removal order when logging out

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 23:35 -0500, Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > My point is: On logout, close all other apps first (by whatever
> > appropriate means),
> > then close all nautilus windows (the last remaining windows), which will
> > eventually
> > clear the desktop, and finally close metacity and gnome-panel (by whatever
> > appropriate means).
> I think Bastien was saying something like "ask apps to save themselves
> and then when that's done just exit gnome-session and let X die (and
> then most apps will die almost simultaneously with a fatal x io error
> while the login screen is been brought back up)"

The problem is that X won't always die: you can configure gdm to just
have the session terminating while X is staying alive - way faster.

I think X restarting is just a workaround for some bugs (I tried it,
it's not always working very well).

	Xav