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  • Ok, that cleans up the look. I may be missing something, but how does one execute that termination of the graphical session? The easiest thing I could think of would be a custom OS signal handler. Commented Feb 11, 2015 at 10:13
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    If you have an active client frame, you can issue kill-emacs directly. If you have no current clients, you can run emacsclient -e '(kill-emacs)'. If you just want Emacs to shut down more gracefully when killed by a signal, you'll probably need to M-x report-emacs-bug (after checking to see whether it's already been logged). Commented Feb 11, 2015 at 23:32
  • Sure. The thing is that I do not want to bother and manually tell every program to shut down gracefully. Desktop session managers do tell programs the session is about to terminate. I want emacs to automatically take action at that time. Commented Feb 12, 2015 at 8:19
  • Well check the bug reports, report a new one if necessary, and once you have more information, update the question, or post an answer. Commented Feb 12, 2015 at 10:26