On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 02:29 -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > Colin Charles wrote: > > > > Also, when I log out of GNOME, there are a tonne of services to stop > > "properly", its kinda hard to do it automagically, I'd imagine > > The only way I *ever* log out of GNOME is through the time-honored > mechanism of having X crash. So, that had better be a "safe" thing to > do. I think that any notion of doing housekeeping at/after logout is > flawed. Yes. The plan, which we are slowly moving forward on, is to tie everything in the session to the session D-BUS, which monitors your X session and exits when it does.