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Very good idea! Both KDE and XFCE knows session restore, no idea why Cinnamon lacks these basic features! I approve this idea! |
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So in other words, if I have a document open in LibreOffice, the feature you want would only record that LibreOffice is open and where on the display it is. When I started up again, I would reload the document and scroll to the place where I left off working. Okay, got it, thanks. That makes sense. |
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Well, I think you are grasping the idea. |
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Ah. What I prefer is hibernation, because it saves not only the open windows, but also their contents, so I can pick up working immediately. |
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@cplittlfield I'm having problems with my Geforce 1050ti comming back from hibernation. The fans start but video is complete dead, forcing a manual reboot. Is this worth creating an issue? |
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@cplittlfield Hibernation is fine where it makes sense and is possible, but full reboots will inevitably be necessary even if only to apply system or kernel updates, and that's when a feature like the one that was requested comes in handy. |
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Not a perfect solution, but you can try it. Open dconf-editor (install it if it is not) and set to true the key Or use the command: Save your current work then log-out/log-in. |
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The solution you provided ( What It Does:
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Workaround? Combine
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This is why I said: "Not a perfect solution". |
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I tried EndavourOS for a while and I prefer my good old reliable battle tested Mint. But not having session restore is a major letdown. We gotta bring it back to life! |
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Since Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome, could try porting/rebasing the necessary parts from Gnome, although I imagine it would be quite complicated and require many changes in multiple components for things like this. |
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I used session restore on Mac, but didn't use it very much. Often a blank desktop is much better, this is my experience. Since MS changed their license for win11, we got a influx of picky and desperate users who are angry with the features on Linux, because a lot doesn't work like windows. Linux isn't the cause of MS license changes, so who should be angry with whom? Instead to ask for features, I'd look into alternatives, like cinnamon spices: Here another great applet of claudiux: |
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As a long time multi-platform user, being patronizing with legitimate and reasonable user requests and calling them “picky” and “desperate” and “angry” just because you personally don’t want the feature is a very narrow-minded point of view. Everyone has a different path through software and it’s fine for different people to like different options. It’s also ok to improve things and add useful features, and it’s ok to make them opt-in. Linux Mint of all distros is a very odd one to have this kind of judgey, unwelcoming attitude about. Live and let live dude. And if you’d bothered to read instead of just opinionating, you would have seen this was filed by a person missing the previous spice after it was abandoned. I’m sure people would be happy with a spice done well. I have no strong opinion on one versus the other; it would depend on deeper details than I’m currently familiar with, like whether spices can do everything they’d need to for this. |
I talked about my experience. Just read my post carefully, if you want be heard.
Well, this *sounds* demanding, isn't it? Don't be shocked if I tell you: If features don't exist, do it yourself. That's the philosophy of Linux. If you can't contribute, look for alternatives. Read again my post and look for alternative spices.
Well, this isn't nice and true. Mint is a conservative OS and you should know this, if you really know what you're saying. And many users of Mint like it this way. People have different opinions and features that look natural to some, are less important others. |
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You’re partially right but far too aggressive about it. I don’t think anyone here is implying entitlement. We’re discussing and requesting a relatively inconsequential but still desired feature. Discussion like this is part of seeing how much common interest there is. It is really unclear what your goal here could be when it seems like a feature you don’t want. Most of all though, and the reason I’m replying at all, is that I very strongly disagree that the ethos of Linux is to “do it yourself”. And I say all this mostly for other readers’ sake, because it seems unlikely I’ll convince you while contradicting you so directly. Of course open-source centers around the fact that you can do it yourself. That’s of course the core; the piece that means anyone can contribute if they feel strongly enough. The piece that enables a great many valuable contributions. But the way you phrase it is as if feedback from users is worthless unless they pair it with a patch. The nature of open-source also means that there will always be more (or equal) users than contributors to any given piece of code, and that ratio only grows as software becomes more consequential. People contribute in one or a few areas, and then are “simply” users in every other area. That does not make their feedback invalid those other areas. The ethos of Linux and of open-source as a whole is to share alike. “Do it yourself” alone misses far too much that is important to the whole. After all, what greater joy is there to a software developer than happy users who have had their needs met? And how can one hope to arrive at that without listening to their feedback? No one is demanding that this particular feedback be prioritized over anything else. I think that is something you imagined to have something to be angry about. |
I'm just pragmatic about. This doesn't mean I'm enjoying to "hit you" if you feel it this way; for the sake to do it.
The goal is self empowerment. Linux isn't just some OS or some software.
What joy are you talking about if you do it for a same minded community who cares about freedom of choice versus subscription lock-in and other nauseous services ? Often big corporations use open source libs, derive big capital from it but don't care ever to donate and don't send ever any thanks? You can find articles on this matter online.
Why are you trying to mirror back keywords you don't like just because I've another position? Lets be respectful, but this works only if we listen to each other without judgemental pre-conceptions. |
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One way this could be implemented is to have an internal history of all the opened windows and the other parameters about them, such as the commands used to open them, their size, position and which monitor they're on. This would be updated as the window manager does stuff (resize windows, minimize, maximize and so on). Once the user closes the window, it would be removed from the history. Then, if the feature is enabled, whenever the system restarts it would just replay the history of changes in the previous session. |
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I have Cinnamon as desktop environment on all my non-server Linux machines and I would also love to have this feature. I experienced it for the first time on my Chromebook (where it's a default feature) and I fell in love with it. When possible, I use hibernation, but in some cases - e.g. Surface laptops/tablets - hibernation is not supported by Linux, therefore the user needs to shutdown and restart the machine everytime. |
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Dear Linux Mint Community,
I would like to kindly request the implementation of a session restoration feature in the Cinnamon desktop environment. This feature would allow users to save their current session, including all open applications and windows, and restore it automatically after restarting the system. Such functionality is incredibly useful for enhancing productivity and maintaining workflows, especially for users who rely on multiple applications during their daily tasks.
Currently, this feature is not natively available in Cinnamon. While there are workarounds like configuring startup applications or using third-party tools, these solutions do not fully replicate the seamless session restoration experience provided in other desktop environments like GNOME and KDE Plasma.
I understand that in the past, tools such as the "Icing Window Saver" applet were available to address similar needs. However, this applet was removed from the Cinnamon Spices due to inactivity and lack of maintenance, as discussed in the archived repository (Icing Window Saver GitHub Archive) and this issue thread (Cinnamon-Spices-Applets Issue #2352). While I recognize the importance of maintaining high standards and security for applets, I believe a built-in session-saving feature would be a more robust and long-term solution.
Would it be possible to consider adding this functionality in a future release of Cinnamon? I genuinely believe that this feature would greatly benefit many users and make Cinnamon even more user-friendly. Thank you for considering this request, and I am more than happy to collaborate or provide further feedback to support this effort.
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