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I know this is quite old but I tried your workaround of comment #59 on Ubuntu
17.10 and it is not working.
I am using the script that you kindly provided. The only net result of running
the script manually is that Thunderbird and Dropbox are re-opened. I stress
that Thunderbird and
Unfortunately this
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1037616/comments/4)
does not work for me.
I'm on Ubuntu Trusty with Gnome3 (gnome-session 3.9.90-0ubuntu12).
I started with the following workaround (manual method see bottom for a
automated one):
1) download dex
This is still working for me in GNOME 3 on Trusty. See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1037616
comment #4 for a succinct summary of the rather involved way to activate
the session saving/restoring workaround.
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Does this fix or another one (unknown to me) works for Trusty (14.04) Desktop ?
I am dying to see this implemented for all my desktop's windows.
Just imagine if you left work in the evening with your (real desktop) set for
the next day and on the morning of the day after, you find that
Just checked and the setting still exists in latest 12.04.3, but it has
no effect at all.
Upgrading to 14.04 in two months -- hopefully it will be functional in
the new release.
This is a valuable feature. It really needs to be restored.
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It seems that Precise now have gnome-session 3.2.1-0ubuntu8.
How I can enable session save/restore functionality?
** Tags added: oneiric precise
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First, you can't create a single interface for mobile devices and desktops and
who in the hell said they wanted it? MS tried and failed, and so has Ubuntu
with Unity. Some things are just illogical. Second, I used to like Gnome and
used it exclusively and I'm disgusted by all the downgrades
This bug is marked as closed with fix released, I didn't found any
fix. how do we reopen it ?
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No way to save current session
To manage
Hibernate is completly different from saving a session in a file. What's
about, many users? dual boot? power failure? This functionality is
mandatory for many users, a key functionnality. I really don't
understand this low priority.
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Is there any progress regarding this issue? I just tested Gnome 3 on
Ubuntu and you need to tweak it a bit but afterwords it seems to be
quite good. But the session saving does not work. Also the suggested fix
does not work (Ubuntu 12.10).
For me this is also a show stopper and i will switch back
Am I correct in understanding that this fix does not restore the gnome-
session-save program, which allows saving a session in progress without
having to log out? If so, then nothing is solved from my point of view.
Having to log out in order to save my session is quite a big
requirement, because
Bug persists.
How is it possible that GNOME on Fedora does this flawlessly -- always
has -- while Ubuntu Unity in Precise cannot?
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No way
Thing says Fix Released for precise. Why do I not see the bug fixed
after installing updates? How can I see the version number of which
package that releases the fix, or the changelog of the gnome-session
package?
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exported GNOME_SESSION_SAVE variable in bashrc, which IS read during
startup, unfortunately it doesn't work.
I just might have to table Ubuntu. That's so very sad.
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The session files are saved only for programs like Gedit. Programs like
Chrome do not get saved on the session at logout.
And NOTHING is restored upon logon, even though all dconf and gconf
related settings are enabled.
This is pretty bad. Everyone gets this right EXCEPT Ubuntu Unity (and
Rudd-O,
as i replied earlier in this thread, I've been so frustrated by this that
I've already ditched gnome and moved to xfce. It gives me my gnome 2 look
and feel and behavior, including flawless session saving.
Also, future releases of gnome are going to severely curtail the
functionality of
Rudd-O,
To add to my previous email, don't table Ubuntu just yet. Install xfce and
the other ancillary xfce packages, or try xubuntu (Ubuntu with xfce as the
default window manager).
Also, correcting a typo in my previous email, i somehow missed out adding
the word hacker after the word kernel.
You need to export the variable to the environment of gnome-session,
which does not read .bashrc. Try setting it within /etc/X11/Xsession.d
instead.
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GNOME_SESSION_SAVE works fine for me. I am using it in a GNOME (3)
session started by gdm.
In this case, the environment variable has to be set somewhere that is
found by /etc/gdm/Xsession, for example ~/.profile.
Hence for those for whom the fix doesn't work: check that the
environment variable
Hello,
Thank you very much for your update. I'm glad to hear that it works for
someone.
I tested Desgualdo's script with no success, maybe due to my lack of
knowledge.
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with GNOME (3) Classic (Fallback) mode.
Unfortunately I can't find /etc/gdm/Xsession nor ~/.profile
If there is no /etc/gdm/Xsession on your system, then you're not using
GDM, and my approach may not work for you. You could switch to using
GDM.
If you have no ~/.profile, I am surprised, as Ubuntu creates one by
default when a user account is created, and has done for many years.
However, you
Note that, rather confusingly, GNOME_SESSION_SAVE only controls whether
the session is *restored*, not whether it is *saved*. To ensure that it
is saved, you must set org/gnome/gnome-session/auto-save-session in
dconf, e.g. with dconf-editor.
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More succinctly, enable session saving with:
dconf write /org/gnome/gnome-session/auto-save-session true
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Title:
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Thanks again. I have just checked it with dconf-editor and /org/gnome
/gnome-session/auto-save-session was set to TRUE already. And, of
course, without effect.
I reckon that I may have missed the point of this bug mistaken
GNOME_SESSION_SAVE for AUTO_SAVE_SESSION, as my problem is that my
session
Just in case it might help anyone, I'd like to mention that I've given
up on this whole thing and switched to using xfce instead of gnome. It
allows me to get back my gnome 2 look and feel, and also gives me
painless session saving.
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:21 AM, CSV 771...@bugs.launchpad.net
Thank you for the tip Kartikeya. In other systems I'm starting to use
Xubuntu too with interesting results, but I keep GNOME in my main
computer for the moment.
I've read that even Canonical is going to freeze GNOME 3 versions in
12.04 LTS to avoid further changes in Nautilus that steal even more
Hello,
As this bug is marked as Fixed I just wanted to make clear that
GNOME_SESSION_SAVE=TRUE does *NOT* work in Ubuntu 12.04 Classic (updated to
date, so with the released fix). No window/application is saved and
re-opened/re-launched on startup.
I understand that it should be marked as
I have made a workaround until this gets fixed. It is a script that helps to
configure your session. Just paste this at terminal:
cd ~/ wget -c http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4098082/session.config chmod +x
~/session.config ~/session.config
You can view the code of script (
Setting the GNOME_SESSION_SAVE environment variable seems to nothing.
Anyone used it successfully?
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** Changed in: ubuntu-release-notes
Status: New = Invalid
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This is only a low bug, and could introduce more problems than it
solves. Lets get this into the q-series instead, and consider a
backport/SRU later in the cycle, after there's been a bit more strategic
thinking around this.
** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu Precise)
Milestone: None =
This bug was fixed in the package gnome-session - 3.2.1-0ubuntu7
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* debian/patches/51_remove_session_saving_from_gui.patch:
- add GNOME_SESSION_SAVE environment variable for people wanting to
use the save session
** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu Q-series)
Status: New = Fix Released
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I've discussed this further with Kate on IRC; the risks here are not
risk of regression, they're risks that users will shoot themselves in
the foot by using this feature. But the agreement that came out of UDS
was that didrocks would give me (and other users like me) a loaded gun
pointed
** Also affects: ubuntu-release-notes
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Thanks for going after this problem, all! However, I'm not clear on
something. In my case, I like to save a standard session that starts
up every time, not the latest session. With that in mind, would it be
possible to set the environment variable, close the session (in correct
form), re-open it,
** Branch linked: lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-session/ubuntu
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There is a pending upload for this:
+gnome-session (3.2.1-0ubuntu7) precise; urgency=low
+
+ * debian/patches/51_remove_session_saving_from_gui.patch:
+- add GNOME_SESSION_SAVE environment variable for people wanting to
+ use the save session still, knowing that it can break your system
** Also affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu Precise)
Importance: Low
Status: Triaged
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About the ubuntu version 11.04 logout: the gnome-session.
We can do this: killall gnome-session.As we know that we can type sudo
gnome-session-save --logout then the os will logout!
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Session saving is a must have feature! I really missing it after
switching from KDE to Gnome/Unity, KDE was and still is really good in
session management and it would be great to see such session management
in Gnome
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** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Didier Roche (didrocks)
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@Dimitris: unfortunatly not, I tried to reenable it for oneiric, but the same
issues came again, with session mixing and no way ui at all in GNOME3 in the
gnome-control-center to enable/disable session saving properly.
GNOME is thinking to disable it as well btw as the feature is broken.
Even if saved sessions didn't work in all cases their removal should
have been mentioned in the release notes at least.
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Saved sessions save(d) time. Hope it gets re-instated and a patch made
available for gnome shortly otherwise like others I will be looking to
use a different distro.
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One of these days I want to try to revert Didier's patches on gnome-
session to see if I can fix this. I've switched to Linux Mint, but
they've inherited this same bug in their latest version based on natty
(11).
I'm a bit confused with those session management work items. Isn't
GNOME Classic
Is there any progress on this?
Without saving sessions Ubuntu is worthless to me...
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According to this, there's still hope for oneiric:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-session-management
Don't hold your breath for natty.
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I think he just want to make sure that everyone understands that this
bug appears in both the session Ubuntu, Ubuntu Classic and Unity
2D.
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That's true, thank you Thomas. And my apologies, Pedro, if I misunderstood your
intent.
The problem occurs in Ubuntu Classic, which is, as Thomas pointed out, not
Unity 2D, but the traditional Gnome session as it was in Maverick.
Regards, Rüdiger
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Ok I'll update the description as well then, because it clearly said
'Unity' thus the confusion, thanks all.
** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist = Low
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: gnome-session
There is no way I can find to set up a session the
Pedro, this bug is in no way specific to Unity. It appears in Ubuntu-classic
just the same.
Changing bug title accordingly.
Regards, Rüdiger.
** Summary changed:
- No way to save current session in Unity
+ No way to save current session
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Not sure I follow the sense of this change. First, the problem is
specific to only Unity and its fallback mode. KDE, XFCE, etc are not
affected.
Second, it was my understanding that Ubuntu-classic is a subset of Unity
(the fallback 2d mode). Is that incorrect?
On the other hand, recent moves
** Summary changed:
- No way to save current session
+ No way to save current session in Unity
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Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Triaged
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Status: New = Confirmed
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I have updated to 11.04 few days ago and was quite surprised to lose my
session. Even when I switched to Ubuntu Classic I would still lose my
session. So I googled and found this discussion.
To be frank I find developers' reasoning to be flawed and to a certain
extent disturbing. Session saving
Not to be too flip, but Kubuntu 11.04 (KDE) looking like ubuntu
classic (gnome) has no problem saving the session. There may be other
problems but that certainly is not one.
This needs to be fixed for all the reasons listed above...
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I'm a KDE user and having just tried Unity for the first time am also
affected by this issue. I really miss this feature. The forum thread
mentioned in an earlier comment implies there are technical issues.
Since KDE seems to manage to implement it successfully, could we look at
how it is
I fully agree: this really is a showstopper. This is horrible!
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Ouch. I know the developers were running fast to get Natty out in time,
but this is a mighty big hole for a lot of us.
I liked Unity when I first saw it -- for about 5 seconds. Then I
couldn't figure out how to do anything, since it's all changed and the
menus are gone. But I persisted and a
This seems to have been broken by accident or on purpose. Very
frustrating. You can enable it with gconf-editor (Configuration
Editor) under /app/gnome-session/options/auto_save_session, but it does
not work for Unity or GNOME (Ubuntu Classic).
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Looks like it was removed deliberately:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1672787
The original rationale is that it was broken and they didn't have time
to fix it. However the subsequent discussion shows that they do not
intend to. The reasoning is highly flawed. I keep my machines on
I think you've got it about right, though I interpret the discussion as
if someone finds a way to do it maybe we will put it in. On the other
hand, it looks like it's a good thing somebody submitted a bug, since it
appears the various folks in that discussion think it would be too much
trouble or
Can you save the session in classic now? In Ubuntu 10.10, the session
could be saved System-Preferences-Startup Applications-Options; not
now.
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No, I can't! I was primarily interested in Unity, but it's very
interesting to see the pref gone from Gnome 2 also. I hadn't previously
tried starting classic -- at least on my setup, it does a pretty good
job of matching things up. Which means unfortunately they both fail in
the same way.
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This missing feature is also to me a show stopper!
I'm using Ubuntu in my lab on several test PCs and each PC uses about 20
terminal well ordered to have an overview over the system. To open and
place each terminal after a restart is absolutely a NO GO to me!!!
I switched immediately back to
This is a real showstopper... im going back to ubuntu classic (gnome) until i
can save session in unity!
I dont want to open 7 terminals and 2 browsers and alot of other apps every
time i launch my computer and i dont want it running 27/7 because of the power
bills.
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