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

[brian powell <briangpowellms@gmail.com>]

* Discovered this a few days ago: Will it solve your "proble"--which
seems to be "saving state"; well, maybe, if you play with the code a
little:

;;; perspective.el --- switch between named "perspectives" of the editor

;; Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Nathan Weizenbaum <nex342@gmail.com>
;;
;; Licensed under the same terms as Emacs.

;; Author: Nathan Weizenbaum
;; URL: http://github.com/nex3/perspective-el
;; Version: 1.6
;; Created: 2008-03-05
;; By: Nathan Weizenbaum
;; Keywords: workspace, convenience, frames

;;; Commentary:

;; This package provides tagged workspaces in Emacs, similar to
;; workspaces in windows managers such as Awesome and XMonad (and
;; somewhat similar to multiple desktops in Gnome or Spaces in OS X).

;; perspective.el provides multiple workspaces (or "perspectives") for
;; each Emacs frame.  This makes it easy to work on many separate projects
;; without getting lost in all the buffers.

;; Each perspective is composed of a window configuration and a set of
;; buffers.  Switching to a perspective activates its window
;; configuration, and when in a perspective only its buffers are
;; available by default.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> 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
>
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