On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 10:43 -0400, Dan wrote: > David Timms wrote: > > Jay Cliburn wrote: > [snip] > > There are times when exit really means exit now or be killed, for > > example during shutdown. The process gives every app a can you close > > please signal, if it isn't closed within a timeframe, sends a > > terminate now signal (which can not be ignored by an app), this > > ensures the machine actually shuts down rather than waiting forever > > for apps to close. > Far too often, when I am forced to use the monopoly OS, I find myself > wishing there even existed a kill signal in Windows. But I'm sure in the > cases when I need it, the program that executed the kill signal would > take hours to open. *sigh* You didn't mention if you were running Gnome or KDE. If it's Gnome, it's likely a setting in your ~/.gnome/session file or the global /usr/share/gnome/default.session file, specifically the warn-delay or the suicide-delay settings. Both default to 10 seconds. See "man gnome-session" for details. > [snip] > > DaveT. > -Dan > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - BASIC is the Computer Science version of `Scientific Creationism' - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
