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Re: how to tell graphical Emacs to shutdown cleanly from tty1?


From: Yuri Khan
Subject: Re: how to tell graphical Emacs to shutdown cleanly from tty1?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:34:43 +0600

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> wrote:

> Lately I run GNU Emacs mostly as GUI on X/tty7 (which I'll call "the desktop" 
> as opposed to emacs-desktop) on one of my Debian laptops. Occasionally the 
> desktop hangs, in which case I usually can goto tty1 and `sudo shutdown 
> -whatever now`. Unfortunately this does not seem to cause Emacs to shut down 
> as cleanly as I'd like: I'd like Emacs to (e.g.) save any unsaved buffers and 
> save its emacs-desktop, but that doesn't seem to get done. (Am I missing 
> something?)
>
> So I'm thinking that, in this usecase, I should utter something from tty1 
> (before `shutdown`) to tell Emacs to shutdown cleanly ... but I don't know 
> what to say. How to do this?

Assuming that your Emacs is running a server, you can connect to it
with emacs-client and then execute (kill-emacs).



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