Re: How to restore the layout?

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 04:03:02 -0400
>> 
>> >> > Just make sure we re-create all those frames, and if they need to be
>> >> > resized or moved, be it by the window manager or manually, so be it.
>> >> > It will already be a great improvement from what we had before,
>> >> > whereby users would have manually recreate every frame.
>> >> 
>> >> For some users/use cases, not for others.
>> >
>> > Please give examples of uses where what I suggest would be profoundly
>> > wrong or nonsensical.
>> 
>> I would consider it a serious bug if Emacs did not restore frame
>> positions in "restore desktop".
>
> So do you also consider it a "serious bug" when today's desktop fails
> to restore buffers, because their files disappeared or moved?

No, moving or deleting those files outside Emacs is a user action, so
the user should expect that.

On the other hand, I carefully set up my Emacs frame config, so I expect
it to be restored when I save and restore the desktop.

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-- Stephe