Shutdown loses unsaved OOo document changes

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 15:26 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> As a recent convert to Ubuntu from Win I have a question regarding
> shutdown on Ubuntu 8.10.  If I have unsaved changes in OOo document or
> files in jEdit and I perform a shutdown then it appears to kill the
> applications without giving them a chance to ask the user whether to
> save their changes.  Is this something that I can do anything about or
> do I just have to be careful when shutting down?

The shutdown script will send a SIGTERM to all running processes.  They
then are suppose to receive the signal and cleanly shutdown before the
OS shutsdown the computer.  Apparently, OO does not follow this
convention or if it does, does not have the ability to alert the user to
cleanly shutdown the application.

As a workaround, OO will attempt to recover files from previously
interrupted sessions.  I have found the document recovery works well,
even when my notebook has not shutdown cleanly.
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