I'm not sure, but if your application is dedicated to gnome, why not
registering to session manager?

https://wiki.gnome.org/SessionManagement/GnomeSession

Other question: where is your code related to saving state? I do not see it
in your example.

2013/8/25 Dylan McCall <[email protected]>

>
> I'm working on a small program that sits in the background and runs
> several counters and timers:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2013/Projects/DylanMccall_BreakTimer
>
> When the user logs out, I want my application to save its current
> state to a file, and then restore from that file when the user logs
> back in. Most of this is implemented (with Vala), and I'm connecting
> to the SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGHUP signals to trigger a clean exit:
>
> public int main(string[] args) {
>     application = new HelperApplication();
>     Posix.signal(Posix.SIGINT, sigint_cb);
>     Posix.signal(Posix.SIGTERM, sigint_cb);
>     Posix.signal(Posix.SIGHUP, sigint_cb);
>     int status = application.run(args);
>     return status;
> }
>
> void sigint_cb(int signal_number) {
>     application.quit();
> }
>
> (There is a bunch of code in application.quit that handles the state
> saving stuff).
>
> Everything is fine if I exit the program by sending it one of those
> signals, of course. The problem I'm running into is gnome-session
> seems to be more aggressive (is it sending SIGKILL?), so, when the
> user logs out, my program doesn't get a chance to save its state.
>
> I looked at Gtk.Application.inhibit(), but what I'm doing doesn't
> really jive with what that does (and I'm a big fan of semantics), and
> I'm still stuck trying to reliably catch when we're logging out.
>
> So… is there a useful pattern for doing something like
> Posix.signal(Posix.SIGINT, …), but for gnome-session?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Dylan
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