Re: [dwm] store/restore apps layout

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:08:05PM +0200, pancake wrote:
> It would be cool to be able to store/restore the layout composed by
> multiple applications, i mean...
>
> If I have 3 xterms on the first tag, one firefox on the second one and a
> sylpheed on the third how did you will store this 'metadata' and restore
> after running dwm again?
>
> I'm looking for something like a session manager for dwm. But I can't find
> any clear or simple solution for this.
>
> Is there a way to load a window on a specified tag without recompiling dwm?
>
> Is there a way to have a list of all applications loaded (executable
> program name and arguments) and a list of tags related to this program?
>
> Having these two options will be easy to construct a store/restore on top.
>
> BTW I understand that these options are difficult to be included inside the
> main dwm tree, but i am just looking for a way to solve this, but would be
> cool to keep the opened apps layout as is between dwm restarts.

See hibernate(8).

Regards,

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