Session saving/restoring on Ubuntu

[Kevin Cozens]

On 12-09-08 10:41 PM, Andrej Marjan wrote:
> You're right, it was intentionally disabled:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/129885/how-could-unity2d-save-sessions
>
> Some of the links from that page suggest session saving is generally broken
> in Gnome 3 as well.

Session saving stopped working sometime after 9.10 but I don't know when. I 
went from 9.10 to 11.04 one day via a series of upgrades. I stopped at 11.04 
to avoid winding up with Unity. I discovered I could no longer save 
sessions. If it was removed due to a bug (as one page suggests), the usual 
course of action is to fix the bug rather than disable a feature.

I worked around the problem by adding additional start up commands to a 
shell script which is started as part of the Startup Applications. I just 
have to move the Pidgin window after the desktop finishes loading as that 
program doesn't honour the --geometry setting that would say where to 
position the window on startup.

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