Fwd: Graphical Shutdown

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 09:50:53AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> My mental model of this is that the X session just stays up until the
> computer actually halts, since it's not like the X server maintains any
> state that needs to get flushed to disk.  You might terminate all the
> other clients besides the session leader, and then throw up some
> animation so the user knows things are happening.

You probably want to kill X off just before the final power down. A few
boxes get a bit confuddled if the BIOS video mode isn't reset (I've got one
here which objects if you do a hard reboot from inside an X window) - its
fine after a real reset or if you got text mode first

> But that's just a guess.  It would take some design first to make sure
> we think through the interactions.  At this stage of F8 it might be too
> late to fold this in before release, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't
> work on it.

Hard bit seems to me being sure the old X server is dead dead dead before
the new one begins. Other problem is that X takes longer to start on some
boxes than poweroff to finish....