On Mo, 2010-11-22 at 17:50 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Package: update-notifier > Version: 0.99.3debian6 > > Hi, > > update-notifier uses HAL to reboot, and does it in a very ugly way, > killing all running applications without a warning. > > It should, instead, use the gnome-session D-Bus interface when > available, so that applications are closed cleanly.
It runs org.gnome.SessionManager.RequestReboot() first, if that fails it uses HAL. If I recall correctly, RequestReboot() is an Ubuntu-specific extension and not available in Debian, and something I wanted to work around. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

