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    Remembering apps between sessions

    I recently updated from 14.10 to 15.10 and discovered a rather annoying "feature" of the new KDE. In 14.10 I was able to set up a Dolphin window with several tabs pointing to folders that I commonly access and a terminal window with a couple of tabs in folders that I commonly run command line apps from. I could log out and back in and KDE would remember these things and start them up for me again as if I'd never left.

    In 15.10, it kills every thing off when I leave and I nave to start from scratch at the beginning of each session. Is there a way to change this behavior to match the way it worked before?

    Thanks
    Bill Lugg
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    Have you checked to see if On Login (System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Desktop Session) is maybe no longer marked as Restore previous session?
    Windows no longer obstructs my view.
    Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
    "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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      #3
      Originally posted by Snowhog View Post
      Have you checked to see if On Login (System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Desktop Session) is maybe no longer marked as Restore previous session?
      It is checked. I wonder - I normally shut down the computer at the end of the day instead of logging out of the session (which is the same thing I did in 14.10) first. I wonder if I log out first and then shut down, will it restore as I expect. I think I'll try this and report back.

      Thanks for pointing this out as I didn't know where this setting was.

      Bill Lugg
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        Sure enough, when I log out first, and then reboot it restores some of the apps that were loaded when I logged out. It fails to restore Dolphin for some reason. This seems like a bug to me.

        Bill Lugg
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          #5
          Session restore doesn't work on Qt apps: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=128387
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            Here, running 16.04, the behavior you are wanting with Dolphin open with multiple tabs is working. I set On Login to Restore previous session, opened Dolphin and opened two folders in separate tabs then shutdown/restarted. Dolphin launched with the tabs I had opened previously.
            Windows no longer obstructs my view.
            Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
            "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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              #7
              So, I did some searching in the KDE bug reporting system and it appears that there is an outstanding bug related to this. It can be found at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353548

              That bug points to a deeper problem with Qt that can be found at https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-49667

              HTH
              Bill Lugg
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                #8
                Originally posted by Snowhog View Post
                Here, running 16.04,...

                W, Ubuntu repositories has Qt 5.4.2+ : http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changel...ntu9/changelog

                X, Ubuntu repositories has Qt 5.5.1+ : http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changel...ntu4/changelog
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                  More of session management

                  - Heads-up: Session management issues: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasm...er/046593.html
                  - Causes of session management problems in Plasma 5: https://marc.info/?t=144832701200004&r=1&w=2
                  - Summary:by default do not restore the previous session on next login: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125198/
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