gconfd-2 does not exit when a user log out, breaks unmounting home

[Gordon Messmer]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> I think the simple solution is to exec "gconftool-2 --shutdown" as the
> last thing gnome-session does before exiting, or perhaps even in the X
> scripts in xinitrc. If you wrote and tested a patch along those lines
> it'd be useful.
> 
> Another possible solution is to have an X server monitor process for
> gconfd; basically gconfd would fork/exec a tiny little program that
> simply connects to the X server and sits there, exiting when it loses
> the X connection. gconfd would then exit when this program exits. This
> is conceivably a more robust approach and still pretty easy to
> implement.

Couldn't you also connect gconfd2 to the session manager?  That would be 
more portable to systems which don't use X11, no?