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

[Jan Djärv]

Reuben Thomas skrev 2010-02-02 16.21:
> 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!

Maybe your Emacs was built without libSM?  Did you compile it yourself?
In that case, check if HAVE_X_SM is defined in src/config.h.

If not, try to see if Emacs is linked to libSM.  On GNU/Linux that is
% ldd emacs

Please yes M-x report-emacs-bug when reporting bugs, it includes information 
that helps tracking down the bug.

        Jan D.