bug#5512: Automatically saving and restoring an Emacs session in GNOME

[Reuben Thomas]

When I log out of my GNOME desktop, if Emacs (23.1) is running I get a
message that it is "not responding". I therefore usually manually quit
Emacs before logging out.

Looking at the source, it seems that Emacs does have xsession support,
so I am wondering what the problem is here. I am only running Emacs
interactively, not in any sort of daemon mode, so the only emacs
process I have running is the one I started myself.

I can't see anything about this in the manual, but of course the
trouble is that "session" occurs many times. I can't find "xsession"
at all in the manual, and "log out" doesn't yield anything helpful
either. Searching online suggests that Emacs may need some help with
GNOME, but I can't see which version or why exactly it needs help, if
it does.

Clarification sought!

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