Hi again, The dcop interface looked interesting first, but this only works for kde applications aware of dcop. As the dcop interface is easy to use I was able to send messages to e.g. kate and to tell it to close a given document. I have not found a save method that I can send to kate. unfortunately a popupwindow, warning me that the file was modified and if I want to save them prior closing. With a frozen desktop a bit useless. So I do believe this is the wrong way to go. Anybody has an other idea how to save the work of open (non KDE) applications in a frozen KDE desktop? Kind regards Sebastian kde@xxxxxxxxxxxx,Sebastian Reitenbach <itlistuser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > > > > I can't comment on the "detach/reattach" goal. But I can point to a hint > > that might help with the "save the contents of running apps" goal that > > you stated in the subject of your message. > > > > The following article (only available in PDF, as far as I know, sorry) > > is an excerpt from the Oreilly book entitled "Linux Desktop Hacks": > > > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdeskhks/chapter/hack40.pdf > > > > thanks for this hint, looks interesting, just printed it out for reading. Now > I only need to find the time for reading and trying... > > I'll let you know how far I'll get. > > kind regards > Sebastian > > ___________________________________________________ > . > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > -- Sebastian Reitenbach Tel.: ++49-(0)3381-8904-305 RapidEye AG Fax: ++49-(0)3381-8904-101 Friedrich-Franz-Str. 19 e-mail:reitenbach@xxxxxxxxxxx D-14770 Brandenburg web:http://www.rapideye.de ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.