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Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved: any way to save?

From Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved: any way to save?
Date 2016-04-03 20:10 +0200
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On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:21:52 -0400
Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 11:26 -0400, Tom Browder wrote:
> >> I just upgraded and am disappointed that, even though browser
> >> instances can be saved between login sessions, terminal windows
> >> apparently can't.
> >>
> >> I have used the gconf editor and found setting:
> >>
> >>   apps | gnome-session | options | auto_save_session
> >>
> >> which is checked, but the terminals still disappear after logging
> >> out and logging back in.
> >>
> >> Is there any way to recover that most valuable feature of the old
> >> GNOME desktop?
> >
> > AFAICT, Nope.
> >
> > See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704676
> 
> I remember that now.  So is there any way to drop back to using GNOME
> Classic as in Deb 7?

Debian 7 did not have GNOME classic. It had GNOME "Classic Mode" (GNOME
3 thinly disguised as GNOME 2) but that is not the same thing.

> If not, are there any other reasonable, debian-packaged, desktop
> environments that provide auto-saved terminals?

MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. It is virtually identical to the GNOME we
all loved (although sadly I came to the free world too late to
experience it; Debian 7 was my first GNU distribution).

It is available for Debian 8, and in backports for 7.

> So sad, UI design following faddish, short-lived form over function,
> just like the fashion industry: the emperor has no clothes!

Agreed. GNOME 3 is style over substance, 100%.

You have two options: use Debian 8 with MATE or Debian 6 with GNOME. I
would opt for the former.

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Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved: any  way to save? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2016-03-21 16:30 +0100
  Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not  saved: any way to save? Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2016-03-21 16:50 +0100
    Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved:  any way to save? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2016-03-21 17:30 +0100
      Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved: any way to save? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-03-22 11:30 +0100
        Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved:  any way to save? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2016-03-22 13:00 +0100
          Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved:  any way to save? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-03-22 13:30 +0100
            Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not  saved: any way to save? Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-03 20:10 +0200
    Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved:  any way to save? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2016-03-21 17:30 +0100
      Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not saved: any way to save? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-03-22 11:30 +0100
        Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not  saved: any way to save? Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-03 20:10 +0200
      Re: Upgrade Deb 7 to 8, GNOME Flashback, terminal windows not  saved: any way to save? Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-03 20:10 +0200

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