Question: safe shutdown of applications with close confirmation dialog

[matejdro]

Hello,

This is not really an issue, just a question:

UWSM says to have safe shutdown capabilities. Does this also include not shutting down / stopping the shutdown process if an application does not stop within X seconds?

Use case for that would be programs that do not want to close because they want user to confirm the closing (for example via "Do you want to exit without saving?" dialog).

If not, how would one achieve this properly? At the moment, I have a hacky script to do this, but I'm looking into doing this the proper way.

[Vladimir-csp]

UWSM says to have safe shutdown capabilities.

Not safe but clean. That is, ordered termination via unit deactivation.

There is systemd-inhibit for preventing actions such as shutdown, but there is nothing on UWSM's side (yet) to handle messaging/querying. Maybe I'll add at least some form of notification.