Autosave D-BUS message?

[Benedikt Meurer]

Carmine F. Greco wrote:
> I had a thought after my Linux laptop locked up yesterday while trying
> to suspend.  What do people think about an autosave D-BUS message that
> applications would listen for and upon receiving automatically save the
> currently open files?  I would love to add the generation of such a
> message to the script that I use for suspending my laptop.  I know I
> should figure out the real problem with suspend but it works 80% of the
> time, and I've already gotten in the habit of saving all my files
> manually before running the suspend script.
> 
> Thoughts?

Sounds like a job for the session manager, using SmsSaveYourself.

> Carmine

Benedikt