Rudd-O,

To add to my previous email, don't table Ubuntu just yet. Install xfce and
the other ancillary xfce packages, or try xubuntu (Ubuntu with xfce as the
default window manager).

Also, correcting a typo in my previous email, i somehow missed out adding
the word "hacker" after the word "kernel".

Anyway, try Ubuntu with xfce or xubuntu. Ubuntu is a neat distro in other
respects - except that it occasionally messes up on the system upgrade :)
On Sep 8, 2012 8:31 PM, "Beast in Black" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Rudd-O,
>
> as i replied earlier in this thread, I've been so frustrated by this that
> I've already ditched gnome and moved to xfce. It gives me my gnome 2 look
> and feel and behavior, including flawless session saving.
>
> Also, future releases of gnome are going to severely curtail the
> functionality of nautilus, all on the excuse of being more "user friendly".
>
> I am truly saddened at the things that have happened to gnome since gnome
> 2. Tablet UIs are all very well, but they don't make sense for a desktop
> which is used for much more (by some people at least) than browsing the
> internet and consuming media like music and videos. As a programmer/power
> user/kernel, i find unity/gnome 3 completely unusable as a desktop
> environment.
>
> Speaking for myself, at least, as far as gnome 3/unity is concerned, I'm
> afraid that it's a case of "so long and thanks for all the fish / so sad
> that it should come to this"...
>  On Sep 8, 2012 8:20 PM, "Rudd-O" <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> The session files are saved only for programs like Gedit.  Programs like
>> Chrome do not get saved on the session at logout.
>>
>> And NOTHING is restored upon logon, even though all dconf and gconf
>> related settings are enabled.
>>
>> This is pretty bad.  Everyone gets this right EXCEPT Ubuntu Unity (and
>> Ubuntu GNOME).
>>
>> --
>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
>> duplicate bug report (780714).
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/771896
>>
>> Title:
>>   No way to save current session
>>
>> Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
>>   Invalid
>> Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu:
>>   Fix Released
>> Status in “gnome-session” source package in Precise:
>>   Fix Released
>> Status in “gnome-session” source package in Quantal:
>>   Fix Released
>>
>> Bug description:
>>   Binary package hint: gnome-session
>>
>>   There is no way I can find to set up a session the way you'd like to
>>   have Unity start up and then save that setup. This also affects the
>>   Classic session.
>>
>>   ProblemType: Bug
>>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>>   Package: gnome-session 2.32.1-0ubuntu19
>>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
>>   Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
>>   Architecture: i386
>>   Date: Wed Apr 27 09:27:01 2011
>>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110413)
>>   PackageArchitecture: all
>>   ProcEnviron:
>>    LANGUAGE=en
>>    PATH=(custom, user)
>>    LANG=C
>>    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>>    SHELL=/bin/csh
>>   SourcePackage: gnome-session
>>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>>
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