Dolphin not recovering its previous session settings

[José Abílio Matos]

Hi,
  I am using F38 and the latest updates, and updates-testing. I am also using 
X11 because of the session handling.

Since Thursday last week that dolphin is not able to start from the previous 
session. This does not seem to be a session problem but a dolphin problem 
because asking for dolphin to start from a specific session config file does 
not work.

As an example if I go to ~/,config/session and pick a file from there, for 
example:

dolphin_10cddbd766000168375387600000030090040_1684490045_935605

trying to start dolphin with the session option shows a single tab with the 
home dir (the default).

Previously running

dolphin -session 10cddbd766000168375387600000030090040_1684490045_935605

would restore the session instance of dolphin.

Did anyone else noticed this issue?

Best regards,

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2023-05-24 at 06:33 +0100, José Abílio Matos wrote:
> Hi,
>   I am using F38 and the latest updates, and updates-testing. I am
> also using 
> X11 because of the session handling.
>
> Since Thursday last week that dolphin is not able to start from the
> previous 
> session. This does not seem to be a session problem but a dolphin
> problem 
> because asking for dolphin to start from a specific session config
> file does 
> not work.
>
> As an example if I go to ~/,config/session and pick a file from
> there, for 
> example:
>
> dolphin_10cddbd766000168375387600000030090040_1684490045_935605
>
> trying to start dolphin with the session option shows a single tab
> with the 
> home dir (the default).
>
> Previously running
>
> dolphin -session
> 10cddbd766000168375387600000030090040_1684490045_935605
>
> would restore the session instance of dolphin.
>
> Did anyone else noticed this issue?

X11 or Wayland?

I have 3 Dolphin windows, two of which have split panes and the third
of which has a terminal pane. Under X11 after logging in I can get all
3 windows, but the terminal is either open or closed in all three. The
split ones are still split. See:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455324

Under Wayland, nothing works. This is partly (I think) because
KDE/Plasma session restore on Wayland is simply broken. This has been
reported multiple times and is logged as needing attention. It's the
main reason I haven't switched to Wayland. See:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436318

poc

[José Abílio Matos]

On Wednesday, 24 May 2023 11.46.34 WEST Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> X11 or Wayland?

X11.
> I have 3 Dolphin windows, two of which have split panes and the third
> of which has a terminal pane. Under X11 after logging in I can get all
> 3 windows, but the terminal is either open or closed in all three. The
> split ones are still split. See:
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455324
>
> Under Wayland, nothing works. This is partly (I think) because
> KDE/Plasma session restore on Wayland is simply broken. This has been
> reported multiple times and is logged as needing attention. It's the
> main reason I haven't switched to Wayland. See:
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436318
>
> poc

That is also the same reason why I have not yet changed to Wayland.

I also read Nate Graham's blog:
https://pointieststick.com/2023/05/11/plasma-6-better-defaults/

and specially here the reference to Wayland Showstoppers:
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers