saving the desktop?

[Rex Dieter]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 00:59 -0500, Jason Farrell wrote:
>> Great session saving/restoration -- for the desktop, konsole, and
>> konqueror
>> -- is the *primary* feature that has always kept me coming back to
>> KDE.
>> KDE's got a ton of drawbacks when compared to Gnome's tight
>> integration with
>> Fedora, but booting back up and having *all*[1] two dozen of your apps
>> restored to their respective workspaces is a killer feature. Sorry to
>> hear
>> Gnome's gone backwards from what little session it used to save.
>> 
>> [1] except for a brief period in KDE 4.1.0 when session saving was
>> broken.
> 
> You mean it's been fixed? I assume you're referring to the missing
> "explicit session save" functionality that KDE 3.5 had. I still don't
> see it in 4.1.2.

The GUI is missing, but this works (one line):

qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer \
org.kde.KSMServerInterface.saveCurrentSession 

+ setting "Restore saved session" preference.

-- Rex