if you shutdown your pc and have apps open the apps don't "stop" the shutdown and ask to save

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 05:05:06PM +0200, lupus wrote:
[top-posting fixed]
> > There's no way for an app to stop the shutdown, yeah. Imagine the
> > annoyance on a multiuser system if some random user left a dozen apps
> > open and they all pop up dialog boxes halting the shutdown on his remote
> > screen in Uruguay when you try to reboot the system.
> I mean a shutdown in gnome not in terminal.

I mean a shutdown in gnome too. Multiuser GUI sessions are fairly common.

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