A session is the collection of applications, settings, and
resources present on the user's desktop. Session management is a
set of conventions and protocols that enables Session Manager to
save and restore a user's session. A user is able to log into the
system and be presented with the same set of running applications,
settings, and resources as were present when the user logged off.
When a user logs into the desktop for the first time, a default
initial session is loaded. Afterward, Session Manager supports the
notion of a current and a home session.
The Initial Session |
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When a user logs into the desktop for the first time, Session
Manager will generate the user's initial session using system default
values. By default, the File Manager and Help Manager will start.
The Help Manager displays introductory information about the CDE
desktop.
Current Session |
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The user's running session is always considered the current
session, whether restored upon login from a saved home session,
a saved current session, or the system default initial session.
Based on the user's Style Manager Startup settings, when the user
exits the session, Session Manager automatically saves the current
session. When the user next logs in to the desktop, Session Manager
restarts the previously saved current session, meaning that the
desktop will be restored to the same state as when the user last
logged out.
Home Session |
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You can also have the desktop restored to the same state every
time the user logs in, regardless of its state when the user logged
out. The user can save the state of the current session and then,
using the Style Manager Startup settings, have Session Manager start
that session every time the user logs in.
Display-Specific Sessions |
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To run a specific session for a specific display, a user can
create a display- specific session. To do this, the user can copy
the HomeDirectory/.dt/sessions
directory to HomeDirectory/.dt/display,
where display
is the real, unqualified host name (for example, pablo:0
is valid, pablo.gato.com:0
or unix:0 is not). When the
user logs in on display pablo:0,
Session Manager will start that display-specific session.
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