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Using this to restore a session after reboot? #1
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One idea I realized while typing, perhaps Flatpak apps are easier to handle? Since they have a unique app id which Flatpak tracks (somewhere), and their desktop file should have the same app id? |
hi @vchernin thank you for the feature request. this sounds like a really useful addition. my instinct is to say it may make sense to offer this functionality via a separate extension. i've been in contact with @nlpsuge who is working on https://github.com/nlpsuge/gnome-shell-extension-another-window-session-manager -- i see a potential future where their extension does session management and smart-auto-move handles window position recall. right now another-window-session-manager also offers its own window position recall, so the extensions may battle with one another. it's possible that @nlpsuge's extension does everything you need. either way, i'm interested to hear about your experience. |
Thanks for the quick response! Yeah, I will try out that other extension. It does seems like there are advantages to it.
Just from the readme I see that too. For example there are issues there that don't seem to exist here in my testing:
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closing this issue as it is out of scope for this extension and is better handled by https://github.com/nlpsuge/gnome-shell-extension-another-window-session-manager @nlpsuge and i will continue to collaborate on finding the right level of interop and division of responsibilities. |
This is an awesome extension, in it's current state it is already rather useful. Thanks for working on this :)
For my use case, I find it would be helpful if the applications that were previously opened to be reopened after reboot.
Since the window positions are already remembered, in theory the missing piece is to 1) record all open windows before logging out and 2) somehow autostarting all the previously open apps at login. A hack to copy desktop files to
~/.config/autostart
maybe?I realize this is difficult because you can't distinguish windows from the application...
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