Desktop restore for FC25/Cinammon ?

Mike Davies · 03-18-2017, 06:57 AM

I've always used the XFCE desktop variant of Fedora, and that restores the desktop to the state it was in when I last logged out - i.e. all the various windows and applications are restarted.

I'm now playing with Cinnamon on FC25, and it does not appear to do that by default.

I cannot believe the system does not allow this. I've had a good look around in the various options and settings, but I'm clearly missing something somewhere. Can someone point me in the right direction please ?

hydrurga · 03-19-2017, 12:52 PM

Mike, you've marked this thread as "Solved" but given no indication of how you solved it.

For the benefit of people coming to this thread with a similar problem in the future, could you please describe your solution?

Many thanks.

Mike Davies · 03-23-2017, 07:41 AM

Sorry, I seemed to have hit the "solved" button by error.

But a partial fix is with dconf editor set /org/cinnamon/cinnamon-session/auto-save-session to true.

It seems to autosave Firefox on the first desktop. Nothing else is saved. Reading other posts concerning cinnamon, the auto-save facility was removed because it was never 100% successful.

I have reverted to XFCE.

hydrurga · 03-23-2017, 07:51 AM

Ok, cheers Mike. Sorry you couldn't resolve the problem. You might like to file a bug/feature request at https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-desktop.