dot/xinitrc: Shut down the Gnome session properly on exit.
authorMark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:00:20 +0000 (16:00 +0100)
committerMark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:05:58 +0000 (16:05 +0100)
This seems kinder to the various random Gnomey bits of desktop.  I was
hoping that it would persuade Tracker to leave its databases in a good
state, but that doesn't seem to happen.  Oh, well.

dot/xinitrc

index 9c158bb..4f69187 100755 (executable)
@@ -327,6 +327,28 @@ EOF
 }
 
 ###--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+### Gnome session care and feeding.
+
+session-running-p () {
+  dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus / \
+    org.freedesktop.DBus.GetNameOwner string:org.gnome.SessionManager \
+    >/dev/null 2>&1
+}
+
+kill-gnome-session () {
+  if session-running-p; then
+    info "killing Gnome session manager"
+    dbus-send --session \
+      --dest=org.gnome.SessionManager /org/gnome/SessionManager \
+      org.gnome.SessionManager.Logout uint32:2
+    for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
+      sleep 1
+      if ! session-running-p; then break; fi
+    done
+  fi
+}
+
+###--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ### Actually start things up.
 
 if [ -f $HOME/.xinitrc-local ]; then
@@ -350,6 +372,7 @@ esac
 case "$wait" in
   yes)
     xwait
+    kill-gnome-session
     ;;
   no)
     info "not waiting before exit"