bug#5512: Automatically saving and restoring an Emacs session in GNOME

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Reuben Thomas skrev 2010-02-09 18.47:
> On 9 February 2010 10:02, Jan Djärv<jan.h.d@swipnet.se>  wrote:
>>   Anyway, you have session suport compiled in and Emacs talks to
>> the session manager.
>>
>> Do you have a directory ~/.emacs.d and is it writable?
>
> Yes.
>
>>   If you start emacs,
>> log out and then in again, do you have any session.* files in emacs.d?
>> Or any ~/.emacs.session.* files?
>
> OK, the problem seems to be a bit more complex than I thought.
>
> If I close down all my programs, log out, log in, start Emacs, then
> log out and back in, everything works, and my session is restored.
>
> If however I try to log out from a long-running session, GNOME says "A
> program is still running: Emacs", and offers me the choice to log out
> anyway, or to cancel the log-out action. If I ignore the warning and
> log out anyway, then indeed the Emacs session is restored when I log
> back in.
>
> So in fact, my problem is really: why sometimes does Emacs refuse to
> be killed? I tried for example starting an emacs client session, but
> that didn't seem to trigger this problem.
>
> In summary, it's a minor annoyance now that I understand what is going
> on better, but it would be nice to work out why Emacs sometimes
> refuses to die at first, althuogh it doesn't seem to matter if I just
> log out anyway.
>
> (I did come across another minor bug in the process which I'll now
> file separately.)

This is usually Emacs not responding to the session manager, or taking too 
long time to do so.  I have an idea about this, I'll have to check it out.

	Jan D.

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