Hi, thanks to all replies to the other thread on how to tell applications to save their contents via command line because of a frozen desktop. As the technique is based on dcop, it is only working for dcop aware kde applications. What can I do to save work in non-KDE applications? Does there exist an other generic KDE way to tell other applications to save their work? Or does this has to be a feature of the application in question? Or is there a way to tell the application in question to suspend to the background in that way when the KDE gets killed and restarted the application is not affected. After a restart of KDE i tell the application to come back with all the unsaved work? I mean such a functionality screen offers for the command line, i login to a host via ssh start a screen session. there I start a tasks that will last very long. Therefore I can send the screen to the background, and log off leaving the job running. Later I can come back, and reattach to the screen session. 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.