Re: Sessions – what am I missing?

[Tom H]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Johnny Rosenberg
<gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/12/29 Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
>> On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Johnny Rosenberg
>> <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So the answer to my question is that the session thing that worked so
>>> great
>>> in earlier Ubuntu versions now is removed? That sucks so badly. Is there
>>> going to be ANYTHING left in a few years? :(
>>>
>>> Almost all the reasons to use Ubuntu over Windows are gone soon, as it
>>> seems… (except that I will never go back to Windows how bad Ubuntu ever
>>> gets
>>> – there are other distributions).
>>
>> Is the dconf-editor setting "org > gnome > gnome-session >
>> auto-save-session" what you're looking for?
>>
>> What makes you think that Ubuntu's disabling something that exists in
>> other distributions?
>
> Maybe the fact that I didn't even know that I had something called
> dconf-editor installed…
> And I think I added an OR there somewhere, like if they didn't remove it,
> they hide it or at least made it a lot harder to find. In earlier versions
> most things could be found in the menues. Now they are a lot harder to find
> and some things are actually removed, like a few Nautilus features. It was,
> for instance, very easy to associate a file type with a home-made script.
> Now the easiest way seems to be with Nautilus actions, which isn't even
> installed by default.

The GNOME developers have been on an anti-customization jihad for a
while... You have to set the options that they don't expose in the GUI
via dconf-editor or gsettings.