Using Multipe Desktops and Shutting Down Cleanly

[anonprivate]

I was testing the use of multiple desktops recently.

1. A general dashboard
2. File system
3. yahoo Mail
4. Blank (at this stage)

When leaving and shutting down, pages seemed to need to close, and shutting down gave me the impression of being untidy. On booting, desktops were as when left.

My question/comment is. This can't be the right method of shutting down, the process should be clean.

What an I doing wrong?

Thanks.

Ps the desktops are established experimentally at this stage, they may change.

[Snowhog]

"Shutting down" means just that; shutting down all running applications before shutting down the operating system and turning the power off.

If you want to keep the state of all running applications, then hibernating before powering off is probably what you are thinking of. You have to have a swap partition on your HDD that is (suggested) 1.5 times the size of installed RAM in the PC.

See PowerManagement/Hibernate