GNOME session management and crash recovery

[theBlueSage]

Hi Tom,

I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and after the usual updates I have Gnome
2.32.0 installed. 'gnome-session-save' works rather well in this
version. I have not researched crashing any further but the save,
cron'd, works fine.

Richard 


On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 19:51 -0500, Tom Metro wrote:
> GNOME 2.28.1 has the ability to remember what applications you have
> running when you shut down the system in a controlled fashion, or
> remember them at the time you click the "Remember Currently Running
> Applications" button on the "Startup Application Preferences" applet.
> 
> But it appears to make no attempt to periodically save the application
> state (or technically, send the message to the running applications to
> ask them to save their state), which would be desirable for the purpose
> of recovering from a crash.
> 
> Has anyone hacked GNOME with an external cron job or some such to
> periodically save the state? The 'gnome-session-save' command would make
> this trivial to implement, but it is broken in 2.28.1.
> 
> Do newer versions of GNOME handle crash recovery better?
> 
>  -Tom
>