Re: Saving sessions before a system shutdown

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

Ted Gould wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 16:08 -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
>   
> > Does anyone think it's possible to insert some script in /etc/init.d
> > that might save the session before a shutdown?  In other words is there
> > some way to save the session(s) (if there are more than one) just before
> > a shutdown?  I'd appreciate any pointers.  BTW, I'm running gnome 2.20.
> > Thanks for your answers.
> >     
>
> I don't know if you've already gotten an answer, but I don't think there
> is a generic way to do this currently.  But, I think the part you're
> looking for is probably the command: "gnome-session-save".  I believe if
> you run this with "--kill" and "--silent" on all users currently logged
> in you should get what you're looking for.
>
> Be aware that many apps are not session aware.
>
> 		--Ted
>
>   
Thanks for answering.  A developer from this list did give a similar 
answer off-list, but, again, I appreciate your suggestion.  :-)

-Jose