Touchy sessions

[John Coppens]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:32:20 -0500
"Erik Harrison" <erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey John. Let me clarify something.
> 
> Session saving saves running applications, and restarts them. The
> panel, for example, gets restarted every time you log in by the
> session manager.
> 
> The plugins running in the panel are saved by the panel configuration,
> and not the session manager. Just as saving your email configuration
> in Sylpheed has nothing to do with saving the session.

Hi Erik...

Thanks for explaining. Yes, of course that sounds logical. But in the
mail, I asked if there is a way to save a session without having to
actually exit xfce, and I got the answer 'xfce4-panel --save'. I'm not an
expert programmer, so I supposed that panel call session somehow...

> Very much so. The session save saves the state of the whole desktop,
> and restarts any session aware applications on next login.
> 
> xfce4-panel --save just tells the panel to save it's configuration
> before it gets around to doing it itself.

Great, so, RC2 seems to do things rather as expected (for now). I havent'
seen any of the problems of RC1...

I still would like to know if it is possible (and how) to do a session
save at some point without having to exit (not only the panel, but the
entire state).

Thanks Eric.

John