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Operating Systems Linux Delay gnome shutdown/restart Post 302482684 by DGPickett on Wednesday 22nd of December 2010 09:47:05 AM
Old 12-22-2010
The purpose of running strace on gnome is to show you all the components that run, signal, write to get to the shutdown, places where you could definitely intercept the process and hold it up while the DB update occurs (unless you figure a way to not need the db update).
 

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gnome-screensaver-command(1)				      General Commands Manual				      gnome-screensaver-command(1)

NAME
gnome-screensaver-command - controls GNOME screensaver SYNOPSIS
gnome-screensaver-command [OPTION...] DESCRIPTION
gnome-screensaver-command is a tool for controlling an already running instance of gnome-screensaver. OPTIONS
--exit Causes the screensaver to exit gracefully -q, --query Query the state of the screensaver -t, --time Query the length of time the screensaver has been active -l, --lock Tells the running screensaver process to lock the screen immediately -a, --activate Turn the screensaver on (blank the screen) -d, --deactivate If the screensaver is active then deactivate it (un-blank the screen) -V, --version Version of this application AUTHORS
gnome-screensaver-command is written by William Jon McCann <mccann@jhu.edu>. This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>. SEE ALSO
gnome-screensaver(1) GNOME
2007-09-27 gnome-screensaver-command(1)
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