restoring the screen/apps/menus on powering back up

[bruce]

Hi.

Wondering if there's a solution/process to being able to restore a
laptop to the state it had prior to powering down.

I run Gnome. Say I have multiple workspaces. Each workspace has a
number of "term" windows, and some gedit processes. The Gedit
processes might be running/editing different files.

Is there a way to power down, and power back up, and to be able to
have the same workspace/layout with all the terms/apps running as
before?

Thanks

[stan]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 07:08:19 -0400
bruce  wrote:
> Wondering if there's a solution/process to being able to restore a
> laptop to the state it had prior to powering down.
>
> I run Gnome. Say I have multiple workspaces. Each workspace has a
> number of "term" windows, and some gedit processes. The Gedit
> processes might be running/editing different files.
>
> Is there a way to power down, and power back up, and to be able to
> have the same workspace/layout with all the terms/apps running as
> before?

I think that is called hibernate.  I haven't done that for a long time,
but I recall reading someone getting it to work for fedora on this list
within the last year.  I also seem to recall that Gnome has deprecated
that, and is not supporting it anymore because of security concerns,
but that could be a faulty memory.

The process is to create a swap partition or a swap file, and tell
fedora to save everything to that partition on power down.  Then, the
kernel options line has an option added to restore from that saved area
instead of booting fresh.

A web search on hibernate and fedora should be able to find more than
my vague impressions.