On 03/06/2012 03:07 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Tuesday, 6. March 2012. 17.42.41 Anthony R Fletcher wrote:
If you do a fresh boot you lose your current state....and that is
valuable. So hibernate (for long periods of down time, for example for a
long flight) is very useful.
What happened to the "save session" stuff that should be provided by all
relevant desktop environments? AFAIK, that can (and should) be used to save
the current state of your desktop across a reboot. Is there some aspect of
session-saving that doesn't give you back your desktop "state" in the way you
left it on logout?
I mean, it should open the same apps, keep them on same desktops, etc. I
thought the concept of a "session" was invented precisely for this purpose.
Using hibernate to achieve the same effect is possible, but should not be
necessary, right?
No. There is no way for the desktop to, say, know just where the hell
you were if you were editing a document or viewing a movie or anything
of that type of transient nature. The _application_ knows where it was,
the desktop only knows where the windows were and how your desktop
looked.
I use suspend during the trips between my office and home (short),
hibernate to disk if it'll be an extended trip (like a plane trip).
Hibernate is an extremely useful tool. Do not confuse it with "save
session". They're very different beasties and meant for different
things.
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