elementary OS

Restore complete user session when logging in

Bug #1008351 reported by Eduard Gotwig
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elementary OS
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Bug Description

Give the option to save window states on log out

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

This is a job of X session manager like GNOME Session
There are in fact other cool uses for this...

affects: gala → elementaryos
Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)
Changed in elementaryos:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
David Gomes (davidgomes)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: New → Confirmed
Danielle Foré (danrabbit)
Changed in elementaryos:
milestone: none → loki-beta1
Danielle Foré (danrabbit)
description: updated
summary: - Give the option to save window states on logout
+ Restore complete user session when logging in
Danielle Foré (danrabbit)
Changed in elementaryos:
milestone: loki-beta1 → none
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Niccolo Brogi (nbrogi) wrote :

I'm using this script with great success: http://blog.thewebsitepeople.org/2013/07/gnome-session-save-and-restore/

To log out, I do:
./session save && reboot

When I log back in (parameter "2" is required, or the thing doesn't work for me):
./session restore 2

Restoring windows is a little sudden, e.g. there could be some kind of animation (or what macOS does), and it would look a lot better. However, it works beautifully.

This could be added to elementary right now, and the commands executed on login/logout automatically by default, unless one opts out.

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Zisu Andrei (matzipan) wrote :

Not sure about the including the script - maybe a Vala implementation?

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Niccolo Brogi (nbrogi) wrote :

Sure, Vala would be fine. But that can definitely be a starting point, since it already works.

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