Workaround for a weird Qt/E bug, resulting in qpe hanging if clipboard

applet is loaded and qpe is terminated via shutdown applet.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/core/launcher/desktop.cpp b/core/launcher/desktop.cpp
index e58b08c..f90da1a 100644
--- a/core/launcher/desktop.cpp
+++ b/core/launcher/desktop.cpp
@@ -665,48 +665,54 @@ void Desktop::styleChange( QStyle &s )
 void DesktopApplication::shutdown()
 {
     if ( type() != GuiServer )
   return;
     ShutdownImpl *sd = new ShutdownImpl( 0, 0, WDestructiveClose );
     connect( sd, SIGNAL(shutdown(ShutdownImpl::Type)),
        this, SLOT(shutdown(ShutdownImpl::Type)) );
     sd->showMaximized();
 }
 
 void DesktopApplication::shutdown( ShutdownImpl::Type t )
 {
     switch ( t ) {
   case ShutdownImpl::ShutdownSystem:
       execlp("shutdown", "shutdown", "-h", "now", (void*)0);
       break;
   case ShutdownImpl::RebootSystem:
       execlp("shutdown", "shutdown", "-r", "now", (void*)0);
       break;
   case ShutdownImpl::RestartDesktop:
       restart();
       break;
   case ShutdownImpl::TerminateDesktop:
       prepareForTermination(FALSE);
+      
+      // This is a workaround for a Qt bug
+      // clipboard applet has to stop its poll timer, or Qt/E
+      // will hang on quit() right before it emits aboutToQuit()      
+      emit aboutToQuit ( );
+      
       quit();
       break;
     }
 }
 
 void DesktopApplication::restart()
 {
     prepareForTermination(TRUE);
 
 #ifdef Q_WS_QWS
     for ( int fd = 3; fd < 100; fd++ )
   close( fd );
 #if defined(QT_DEMO_SINGLE_FLOPPY)
     execl( "/sbin/init", "qpe", 0 );
 #elif defined(QT_QWS_CASSIOPEIA)
     execl( "/bin/sh", "sh", 0 );
 #else
     execl( (qpeDir()+"/bin/qpe").latin1(), "qpe", 0 );
 #endif
     exit(1);
 #endif
 }
 
 void Desktop::startTransferServer()