How to save a GNOME 3 session
Try using dconf Editor, here are the steps
- Open dconf Editor
- Goto org/gnome/gnome-session
- Check the property called "auto_save_session"
The description says "If enabled, gnome-session will save the session automatically."
If you don't have dconf Editor installed, the setting can also be changed via the command line with:
gsettings set org.gnome.SessionManager auto-save-session true
Good luck!
Normally you would Alt-F2 to run gnome-session-properties, and select "Automatically remember running applications when logging out" under the Options tab.
However, it is broken at the moment. There is a bug filed:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647359
Sadly in 11.10
gnome-session-properties
doesn't offer any Option tab with Auto Save Session toggle.
So I installed gconf-editor to flip /apps/gnome-session/options/auto_save_session to TRUE.
Not sure if it works. Once I had to add that missing key as boolean.