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Subject: Re: Some things that would make Linux/KDE better for me...
From: linux guy <linuxguy123 () gmail ! com>
Date: 2020-02-07 5:17:46
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Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, if I do a normal shutdown, Firefox
asks to close all the open windows first, which means they don't
automatically reopen upon restart.
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:53 PM T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 12:16 AM linux guy <linuxguy123@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 3) There is a bug wherein the HDMI monitor I want my audio played on
> > isn't saved. It always wants to play on the first (left most) monitor.
> > I have to start pauvolume and select my primary monitor every time I reboot.
> >
>
> Use `pacmd list-sinks` to figure out the index number for the device you
> want and then run `pacmd set-default-sink N` to set it as the default.
>
> 4) It would be really, really nice if KDE remembered which desktop an
> > application was on when you rebooted after doing a forced shutdown. For
> > example, sometimes I have 30 Firefox browsers open on various topics,
> > spread across 3 or 4 desktops, plus some PDFs in viewers and a few Konsole
> > sessions and a few Kwrite documents... and a large update comes along that
> > I need to apply that requires a reboot.
> >
> > Generally I do a #dnf update followed by a #shutdown -r now.
> >
>
> If you shutdown from the command line KDE Plasma gets killed before it has
> a chance to save anything. You'll need to shutdown from within Plasma if
> you want it to be able to save state before it exits.
>
> You could create an alias for the long-winded command to shut down Plasma
> if you still want to use the command line:
>
>
> https://superuser.com/questions/395820/how-to-properly-end-a-kde-session-from-shell-without-root-privileges
>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, if I do a normal shutdown, \
Firefox asks to close all the open windows first, which means they don't \
automatically reopen upon restart.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div \
dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:53 PM T.C. Hollingsworth <<a \
href="mailto:tchollingsworth@gmail.com">tchollingsworth@gmail.com</a>> \
wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px \
0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div \
dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, \
Jan 25, 2020, 12:16 AM linux guy <<a href="mailto:linuxguy123@gmail.com" \
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">linuxguy123@gmail.com</a>> \
wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px \
0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>3) \
There is a bug wherein the HDMI monitor I want my audio played on isn't saved. \
It always wants to play on the first (left most) monitor. I have to start \
pauvolume and select my primary monitor every time I \
reboot.</div><div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div \
dir="auto">Use `pacmd list-sinks` to figure out the index number for the device you \
want and then run `pacmd set-default-sink N` to set it as the default.</div><div \
dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid \
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>4) It would be really, really \
nice if KDE remembered which desktop an application was on when you rebooted after \
doing a forced shutdown. For example, sometimes I have 30 Firefox browsers open on \
various topics, spread across 3 or 4 desktops, plus some PDFs in viewers and a few \
Konsole sessions and a few Kwrite documents... and a large update comes along that I \
need to apply that requires a reboot. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Generally I \
do a #dnf update followed by a #shutdown -r \
now.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If \
you shutdown from the command line KDE Plasma gets killed before it has a chance to \
save anything. You'll need to shutdown from within Plasma if you want it to be \
able to save state before it exits.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div \
dir="auto">You could create an alias for the long-winded command to shut down Plasma \
if you still want to use the command line:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div \
dir="auto"><a href="https://superuser.com/questions/395820/how-to-properly-end-a-kde-session-from-shell-without-root-privileges" \
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://superuser.com/questions/395820/how-to-properly-end-a-kde-session-from-shell-without-root-privileges</a></div><div \
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