[kde-linux] Re: Kpatience not closing correctly when logging out.

[Duncan]

Anne Wilson posted on Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:41:00 +0100 as excerpted:

> On Sunday 24 April 2011 10:52:55 Dale wrote:
>> When I close Kaptience, it doesn't save anything but the stats.  It
>> starts a new game when I restart it.  I think it has always been that
>> way tho.  Maybe I need to switch back to Pysol.  :/   See if KDE can
>> close it without giving me a error.
> 
> That's definitely wrong.  It used to be so, but KPatience has been
> saving open games for, I'd say, a year now.  I often have to leave a
> game half-played, and if I'm not coming back to it soon I close it.  It
> opens where I left it and I finish the game later.

FWIW, kpat has an option for saving open games at close now.  IDK when it 
appeared, but on my existing user at least, the default is not to save.  
Once I discovered the option, I thought about it momentarily and decided 
to leave it that way, as the two forms I play regularly (freecell and 
klondike draw-one) are normally short enough and it gives me motivation to 
finish them before I close kpat.  But I like a 100% success rate on 
freecell (since I know it's possible), and ever once in awhile it give me 
a tough one when I don't really have time for it.  In that case, I used to 
note the game number, kill -9 kpat (so it didn't get a chance to save the 
bad stat) and come back to it later.  But with the option, next time I get 
one I might turn saving games on.

Anyway, /that/ mystery of differing behavior is solved!  It's an option. 
=:^)

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