Restoring desktop after rebooting

balteo · 09-06-2005, 07:58 AM

Hello Tux,
I would like to restore the content of my desktop after rebooting. I use KDE. For instance I noticed that after rebooting some applications were restarted and their previous state restored (such as Krusader) whereas firefox is not restarted and if I had for instance one firefox window with 5 tabs and as many web pages open I had to restart firefox and reopen manually all pages/tabs.
Any idea how I could restore the whole of my desktop??
Thanks in advance,
Julien.

morrolan · 09-06-2005, 08:42 AM

I've looked into this before, and as far as I could determine, it is upto each application itself whether or not it has the ability to save the current state (Firefox especially).

I think some kind of standby or suspend ACPI option like in windows is the best idea, as this simply saves the current CPU and RAM status to a large dump file (swap file essentially, yet not as gracious), and then loads the current state the next time the machine is booted.

Hope this helps in some way.

geeman2.0 · 09-06-2005, 10:52 AM

I can't answer your question in general... BUT:
for firefox install the "session saver" extension and it will remember everything. All your tabs/windows/search boxes will be there exactly as you left them.
It changed my life!