Save Session does not save window configuration (size, position, open applications)

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Fedora 41
KDE Plasma version: 6.2.4
Graphics Platform: Wayland
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When I select “Application Launcher” → Leave → “Save Session” and save the current desktop session, upon reboot or system restart, the windows are not the same size and they’re not in the same position. Spuriously, sometimes applications that were open when the session was saved are not restarted.

I’ve seen many discussions about this with various suggestions but none of the solutions have worked for me.

The Fedora project page here:

suggests posting in the discussion forum before filing a bug, thus this post.

I searched the bug database but didn’t find this particular bug. However, perhaps I didn’t search with the right terms so I’m posting here first before filing a bug.

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Tl;dr this does not work. There is no code to do this for kde wayland yet.

There is a bug ticket raised against kde to fix this.
But it has not seen any developer comment, only lots of users wising this was fixed.

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436318

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Thanks all…

I’ll add some information to that bug 436318. I can reproduce 100% of the time the following behavior. After selecting “Save Session” CTRL-ALT-DEL no longer works, no response at all.

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I added a comment to bug 436318 at bugs.kde.org per my previous description of an ancillary problem related to the Save Session anti-feature…

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I’m new to Fedora. Does anyone have suggestions on how to get the Fedora planners and/or developers to focus on certain things, either bugs or features or other?

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In the case of this problem it is the kde developers that need to do the work, not Fedora volunteers.

In the general case work only gets done if a volunteer is willing to work on something. There is no way to force work to be done.

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QA should probably remove the non-functional GUI option in the meantime :stuck_out_tongue:

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I expect that also needs the KDE devs to make the change.

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OK, thanks.

Not being familiar with the architecture or source code, I am not sure where the interface is between the OS (libraries and system services) and the UI environment (KDE in this case).

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By the way, I did not mean to imply that the community could or should “force” work to be done. But vocalizing our opinions about what is important could (and should) influence the developers and platform architects… unless, of course, they just want to do what they want to do… :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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The KDE blog, This Week in Plasma: Final Plasma 6.3 Features - KDE Blogs reports bug fixes in the Session Restore for plasma 6.3 release. :crossed_fingers: