On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:29:50PM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> I think XDG_SESSION_COOKIE is more aimed at restoring the previously
> saved session state on login, ie start up all the applications and
> get them to exactly the same state as it was at when previous
> log-out occured (assuming all the client applications actually save
> there session state). This is something I've really wanted for a
> long time from a Linux Desktop.

It's something I've hated on many systems I had it on. System crashes.
On reboot is reestablishes exactly the conditions that caused it to
crash. It crashes again.

You need an explicit user request to reestablish any of the former
state, let alone all of it.

-- hendrik