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When I choose restart or shutdown in Ubuntu 16.04, it immediately terminates all running applications. I'm not prompted to save open documents or anything like that - and I've lost work several times due to this (in particular, because various installs may prompt you to restart).

This didn't happen in earlier versions - on shutdown applications that wanted to would prompt me to save open documents, etc.

Is this change a by-design behavior (and can I change it), or is it a bug?

See also the discussion on this earlier question.

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  • I consider this a bug. Here's a report that may fit: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1281058 – Takkat Nov 04 '16 at 20:00
  • It doesn't fit to me. It's specifically dealing with the case where other users are logged in, and how to inform the user initiating the shutdown that his action may affect the other users. It's not anything about gracefully terminating the current user's session and the associated applications. Can you confirm to me that on your system, with a single user logged in, it doesn't prompt to save open work e.g., in gedit? – BeeOnRope Nov 04 '16 at 20:10
  • I can confirm this. It doesn't wait because SIGTERM may be broken or isn't used any more. It just kills everything including other user sessions. – Takkat Nov 04 '16 at 20:16

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