I think you need some sort of checkpointing mechanism, something like: BLCR, Berkley lab checkpoint/restart or/and Cryopid - A process freezer for linux. Regards, Sandeep. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry for spamming the list because this is really not a kernel > question, but I am also not sure if this can be done in userspace > entirely. While working on my laptop today somehow I screwed my Xorg > settings and thus my whole X session. I had to reinitialize/restart X, > but that also meant I had to close all my important open windows :-( > ......... > > I felt it would be nice if I could have stored all the current running > processes in some file (just like hibernate) and just restarted X with > that file (possibly as an argument). That would also mean I can save > different sessions :-) and then hibernate and then come back with > whatever session I wish. > > Is anyone aware of any tool/project that tries to do this ?? > > Thanks - > Manish > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
