Hi Tom, I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and after the usual updates I have Gnome 2.32.0 installed. 'gnome-session-save' works rather well in this version. I have not researched crashing any further but the save, cron'd, works fine.
Richard On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 19:51 -0500, Tom Metro wrote: > GNOME 2.28.1 has the ability to remember what applications you have > running when you shut down the system in a controlled fashion, or > remember them at the time you click the "Remember Currently Running > Applications" button on the "Startup Application Preferences" applet. > > But it appears to make no attempt to periodically save the application > state (or technically, send the message to the running applications to > ask them to save their state), which would be desirable for the purpose > of recovering from a crash. > > Has anyone hacked GNOME with an external cron job or some such to > periodically save the state? The 'gnome-session-save' command would make > this trivial to implement, but it is broken in 2.28.1. > > Do newer versions of GNOME handle crash recovery better? > > -Tom > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
