Questions tagged [session-manager]
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How to find out how often Windows Seven has rebooted?
Where on the system or registry should I look for data on how many times Windows has been rebooted? I want to create an application that uses this information (how many times Windows has rebooted since the OOBE* process) to implement a specific…
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Is it possible to have different pinned app tabs per tab group?
I have Firefox 10 and I want to have 2 main group of tabs. My personal tabs, with pinned tabs like my personal gmail, facebook, etc. And another group of tabs for my work, with pinned tabs like my work email and other sites.
Is it possible to have…
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Does shutdown/reboot need root privileges under Linux?
Why do I need to be root to shutdown/reboot my computer from the terminal? Doing so via the GUI menu doesn't require root privileges.
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How to get the "well, this is embarrassing" screen every time I start Firefox
Sometimes, when Firefox doesn't quit cleanly (perhaps because it crashed, or because the whole computer crashed or didn't successfully terminated Firefox when shutting down), Firefox shows a Well, this is embarrassing page where you can manually…
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How to execute a cleanup command on tmux server/session exit?
To improve my workflow a little I have written a few wrapper scripts to automatically start some commands when I want to work on a project. When I'm done however, and clean all the tmux tabs for this specific session I would like to kill some…
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Can I make my window (session?) manager remember what workspace to place a window in?
I use Gnome on a RHEL system. When I launch a new program, the window manager (?) seems to make an effort to remember the size and position of the window when I last used it. However, I don't know how I can get it to remember what workspace it was…
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Backing up tab groups, or online tab/session storage
When tab groups for Firefox came out they perfectly suited my workflow, and I often have 5 or 10 groups of tabs for various projects, or sections of projects. Previously I used a session manager but I found tab groups a lot quicker and easier to…
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Debian XFCE "Session and Startup" doesn't see all applications
XFCE Session Manager doesn't "see" some of the applications I use regularly.
Namely:
google-chrome-stable (installed through apt-get, from http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/)
A bunch of JetBrains programming tools (Java apps, installed under…
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Resume term after ssh disconnect without multiplexer (screen/tmux)
Screen and tmux (like emacs) are fancy feature rich terminal multiplexers designed to let you efficiently manage terminals as if it was 1985 but they just complicate the simple task of resuming an ssh session where you left off after switching…
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Terminal with session management and scrollback OS X
I use GNU Screen all the time in OS X, primarily running on the server side of my SSH connections in order to maintain persistence, while multitasking. The beauty is that if I get disconnected, all of my virtual screens get resumed, with almost no…
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What session manager should I use?
I'm not using any desktop environment, but I need a session manager mainly to gracefully halt the system. It seems I can't find any solution around. The only one is xsm, but I got no luck with it.
What do you suggest?
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Sytemd graphical multi-session
On Linux with systemd it is possible to have multi-sessions on one seat, eg. I have reached the graphical target starting my display manager, login, and then my graphical user session is in place. I can additionally login via ssh or similar – as far…
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xss-lock, loginctl lock-sessions, xsecurelock not working together on Arch
I have xsecurelock installed on arch, and I can lock the session by running xsecure lock. Trying to lock with loginctl lock-session does nothing, though (no error, just no output, and no locking).
From the research I've done, loginctl lock-session…
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Save Multiple Sessions of All Open Files, Apps, and Windows in Linux
Say I have two projects that I'm working on. I have a series of apps (ex. Chrome, LibreOffice Writer, a terminal) open for Project 1. I have a different series of apps (ex. Chrome, Eclipse, VLC) open for Project 2.
What I would like to do is save…
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Go back to default XFCE-Linux Mint session?
Im using linux mint 17.2 with XFCE.
My graphical interface went down so i had the stupid idea of going to tty1 and type "startx".
Xfce started with a default session look, witch is different than what i got before doing this. It has a differente…
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