#595 Session saving on open/closing of files

[Todd Partridge (Gen2ly)]

Curently Geany session support only saves the session of opened files when Geany is closed directly (i.e. File > Quit, ...). If the user logs out or reboots the computer the session will not get saved because the operating system kills the application upon logout/shutdown (Note: this is true for Linux unsure about Windows). If Geany saved the session upon opening or closing of files/documents/scripts... this would be a nice feature.

[Lex Trotman]

Desktop environment session support is available in the patch here:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3361963&group_id=153444&atid=787793

but the most recent desktops have changed the way sessions work (using dbus not X11) so the patch doesn't work on some of the newer desktops. It is a bigish patch and since it no longer addresses the majority of the desktops it is unlikely to be added.

Until a portable session method is available this capability is unlikely to be added.

[Lex Trotman]

I should have added that I previously proposed saving sessions earlier, but it was rejected. IIRC the main reason was the overhead of a file write for each read, especially on networked file systems.