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The Monday 2007-02-19 at 18:19 -0500, Dan Winship wrote:
> Actually, following up on that question, I'd love some slightly more
> detailed information about how people use this feature:
Ok! :-)
>
> * Do you save your session once, and then resume that same session
> over and over again, or do you prefer to save your session on
> every logout, and always resume the previous session on your
> next login. Or do you use save-session-on-logout sometimes, but
> not always? Or do you never use the functionality at all?
I save once, then use those settings without change from then on; or I may
want something new to save, and I will repeat the procedure.
For this I prefer to save at a precise moment in time by clicking
somewhere, not necessarily on logout. I saved on logout simply because I
did not know how to save when I really wanted to. I do not want to
automatically save on logout unless I say so.
> * Exactly what sort of "state" are you trying to get it to save
> and restore between sessions? Open applications? Open documents?
> Window positions? Something else?
Open applications, window positions, and which workspace, mostly. I do not
want OOo to remember opened files, thankyou ;-) , but I do want gnome
terminal to remember what tabs it has opened, the path, and the command
running, if any - and it does.
Let me see... no, that's not exact. I start a gnome-terminal with this
command:
gnome-terminal \
--tab-with-profile=small --title="Uno" --command "bash" \
--tab-with-profile=small --title=mail --command "tailf /var/log/mail"
\
--tab-with-profile=small --title=mail.debug --command "tailf
/var/log/mail.debug" \
...
It works, and if session is saved, it remember that status fine. No
complains :-)
I think that what data is saved for each application I think can be left
for each app to decide.
I might want to decide when and whether I want the panels to be saved,
because I have no control on that, AFAIK.
> * Does it work? Or are you thwarted by bugs?
I think it works fine in 10.2 - with the exception I asked about in this
thread, that it did not offer to save on logout.
> * Are there any other programs/scripts/hacks you use in connection
> with this functionality to make it work better? (And if so, what
> exactly do they do, what happens when you don't use them, etc?)
The script I use to open that terminal as mentioned above.
> * Have you looked at / used the "Startup Programs" pane of the
> Sessions capplet? Does that seem like a better or worse way to
> set up your default session? Why?
No.
I'm just barely aware of its existence, and I see it as complementary: it
is not the same thing, I don't see how to save window positions, for
instance.
> * Do you have any ideas on how we could present this functionality
> that would work better for you than the way it is now?
Having a menu or something to "save session now", perhaps in the control
panel, inside the session applet - no, hold on, it would restart the
control panel. It has to be a menu entry somewhere.
And having the question posed on exit as a click box - which has
disappeared.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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