-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF2jwLtTMYHG2NR9URAiGFAJ90nWAslHGFRiXjvZV8q3od+uhlAgCfRfDt hd0alSQVu4D8V37AsHJwFW0= =F/yD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org