On 9/18/07, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 09:50:53AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > My mental model of this is that the X session just stays up until the > > computer actually halts, since it's not like the X server maintains any > > state that needs to get flushed to disk. You might terminate all the > > other clients besides the session leader, and then throw up some > > animation so the user knows things are happening. > > You probably want to kill X off just before the final power down. A few > boxes get a bit confuddled if the BIOS video mode isn't reset (I've got one > here which objects if you do a hard reboot from inside an X window) - its > fine after a real reset or if you got text mode first > > > But that's just a guess. It would take some design first to make sure > > we think through the interactions. At this stage of F8 it might be too > > late to fold this in before release, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't > > work on it. > > Hard bit seems to me being sure the old X server is dead dead dead before > the new one begins. Other problem is that X takes longer to start on some > boxes than poweroff to finish.... > I think the best way to do this would be to execute the shutdown gui in the PostLogin session of the first spawn X server. This allows us to avoid spawning another Xserver just to shut down. Jon -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
