How to remember previous login session

SUSE Product Topics SLES Configure-Administer
1

I am pretty inexperienced with Linux, so please be patient with me…

I have just set up a new SPES 12 SP2 machine up and when I log on as a normal (non-root) user, it brings up a blank canvas every time. I start a couple of Xterms and YaST and then logout but when it logs back in, it still displays a blank canvas.

Is there any way when I log in that I can get it to reopen the windows that were open when I last logged out?

Many thanks,

Gary

2

[QUOTE=dn312sr;39188]I am pretty inexperienced with Linux, so please be patient with me…

I have just set up a new SPES 12 SP2 machine up and when I log on as a normal (non-root) user, it brings up a blank canvas every time. I start a couple of Xterms and YaST and then logout but when it logs back in, it still displays a blank canvas.

Is there any way when I log in that I can get it to reopen the windows that were open when I last logged out?

Many thanks,

Gary[/QUOTE]
Hi
Sounds like you running ICEwm? A right click on the desktop shows a menu system? So you physically at the machine when you login, not remotely via something like VNC?

If ICEwm, then you normally would create a shell script to start things up in a file called ~/.icewm/startup (~/ = your user home directory)

3

Thanks for the reply Malcolm. Yes, I am running icewm.

What commands will I need to put in the startup file in order to get icewm to remember my previous session?

Cheers,

Gary

[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;39195]Hi
Sounds like you running ICEwm? A right click on the desktop shows a menu system? So you physically at the machine when you login, not remotely via something like VNC?

If ICEwm, then you normally would create a shell script to start things up in a file called ~/.icewm/startup (~/ = your user home directory)[/QUOTE]

4

Hi
Just the apps you want to run with an ampersand (detach/background), for example

#!/bin/bash

# Xterm 1
xterm &

# Xterm 2
xterm &

You would need to add additional switches for size, location on the screen etc. But these will be fresh apps since if you logout everything is shutdown…

5

Hi Malcolm,

Brilliant! That did the trick nicely!

Many thanks,

Gary

[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;39211]Hi
Just the apps you want to run with an ampersand (detach/background), for example

#!/bin/bash

# Xterm 1
xterm &

# Xterm 2
xterm &

You would need to add additional switches for size, location on the screen etc. But these will be fresh apps since if you logout everything is shutdown…[/QUOTE]