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johannesjo / gnome-shell-extension-window-session-manager

An indicator that let's you save and restore your open apps and the window positions and arrangements over multiple real and virtual displays.
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Selectively save a single stack of windows #14

Closed ghost closed 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

I don't know if this is a functionality provided by some other tool (I have looked, if it is please do tell) but I just have a bunch of images/documents open with FEH and I want to be able to restore them with minimal effort after a reboot.

Is there a way to do this?

johannesjo commented 5 years ago

Hey there! Thanks for opening up this issue. Are the images you're opening always the same ones or are they different every time?

ghost commented 5 years ago

I gave up on a gnome solution and ended up with this working solution:

ps aux|grep -oP "[f]eh.*" >~/feh_restore_session
sed -i 's_/_"/_;s/$/" \&/;1i#!/bin/bash' ~/feh_restore_session

then just bash ~/feh_restore_session after reboot.

johannesjo commented 5 years ago

@MoorayJenkins thanks for sharing! Interesting solution. You probably can combine this with lwsm (the command line tool) to restore the window positions afterwards. Ordering might not be ideal though..