Remember open windows in each desktop on restart

[ardogan]

Hi. Above all, thank's for your excellent product, and excuse my leaky english.

I use different desktops to do different things at a time. For example,

• Desktop 1: I do some programming with the following windows: development enviroment window, help window, web browser window (forums, online source code, tips...)
• Desktop 2: I write a report using several pdf reader windows, the word proccesing program, spreadsheet, image editing program, etc
• Desktop 3: some web page design (quite rustic by the way), it means: different web browsers to test the page, web page design program, image editing program.
• Desktop 4: my relax desktop, music, funny videos, maybe streaming radio, chat

Yes, I know what you're thinking, "this guy has schizophrenia", well... I can't refute there is some truth on that

Now, my intention is each desktop remember all the windows opened on system shutdown (including documents opened in each program). This way I don't need to reopen the same programs with the same documents (I use the term documents, but I wan't to include also web pages, reproduction lists, etc.) everytime I need to restart the system.

Is that possible or its only a delusion?. It will be very helpful for me and my others myself's

Thanks for your time, dexpot is a wonderful job, thanks for doing it.

[vodoomoth]

This is way beyond a desktop switching app.
You are essentially asking for a "big brother" application that would monitor everything on your system, record and interpret mouse clicks and keystrokes and even guess that in this program, Cttrl-F12 means "Open file" while in another it has no relevance to your feature request...

I doubt anyone would go the trouble of writing such a program. I doubt even more that people would like to have it on their system. I wouldn't.

[vodoomoth]

Well, I forgot to add that a better idea is to have the window stacks to be kept after desktop switches: if I move from one desktop, I would like to find the same configuration when I get back it.

[yubert]

Can't it just remember which windows where open and on which screen? the files displayed are not that important, because a lot of programs can remember sessions themselves.
It would make Dexpot more usefull during small sessions.