Re: [O] [OT] How to save and restore window and frame layout and position of windows on monitor - session management

[brian powell]

* Also, there are these commands which may be what is sought (to "save state"):
** "Click <mouse-2> on a completion to select it.
In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.

Possible completions are:
desktop-change-dir      desktop-clear
desktop-read    desktop-remove
desktop-revert  desktop-save
desktop-save-in-desktop-dir     desktop-save-mode



> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Rainer M Krug <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> this is slightly off-topic, but I rather try it here first: I would like to
>> save my window and frame layout and restore it after re-starting emacs. I
>> have the buffers auto saved, and that is working. But I don't get my head
>> around the session management. I found the website
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SessionManagement  but each time I look at
>> it, I get more confused and lost.
>>
>> So - does somebody use session management (I am at the moment only
>> interested to getting back the layout of the different frames in a window,
>> and all open windows restored) and could share some insight and code
>> snippets for a confused org-user to achieve this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>> --
>> Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
>> UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
>>
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