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Written by Eugenia L on 2024-12-26 at 20:19

My husband, @jbqueru requires saved sessions for his multiple dev apps under Linux. We found that NONE of the DEs are saving sessions properly. #Gnome & #Cinnamon don't at all, #Mate has bugs, #XFce only saves its own apps, and #KDE only saves 1 workspace, with no positioning, and only when saving the session manually. #Wayland or #X11, same abysmal behavior.

You might hate on #MacOS, but that's one thing it does well.

[#]linux #opensource #foss #programming #developers

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Written by ❄️ freezr ❄️ on 2024-12-26 at 21:16

@eugenialoli @jbqueru

What about a standard hibernation? 🤷‍♂️

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Written by Eugenia L on 2024-12-26 at 21:36

@freezr @jbqueru This doesn't solve the issue. Suspend is not the problem, the logout/reboot is.

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Written by Angelo Verlain on 2024-12-26 at 21:59

@eugenialoli @freezr @jbqueru I think a GNOME extension could theoretically be able to do this, but most apps don’t really save their last state lol

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Written by Adrian Vovk on 2024-12-27 at 00:31

@eugenialoli @jbqueru You'll be happy to hear that we're making plans to implement this in #GNOME

Apps will be able to make use of this to save their state and restore it after a session reset. The desktop environment would make an effort to include window management metadata like position, workspaces, etc. As long as apps support the feature it should work just like on macOS

Of course not all apps will support the feature, but we'll probably be able to remember at least that they were running

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Written by Eugenia L on 2024-12-27 at 09:24

@AdrianVovk @jbqueru That'll be great, thanks. My husband is running 3 GTK, 1 KDE, 1 SDL apps, and Chrome, at his setup.

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Written by Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru on 2024-12-27 at 09:40

@eugenialoli @AdrianVovk If I could already get my system monitor and my terminals to re-open in the right locations on the right workspaces, that'd be great. Chrome manages well enough on its own, including across multiple workspaces. Kate (the KDE app) knows how to save its state, so it doesn't need more than getting relaunched in the right workspace. The other apps, especially the SDL ones, I typically launch on demand from a shell, so they're not an immediate worry.

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