Questions tagged [desktop]
For questions related to saving and restoring Emacs session data with `desktop-save-mode` and related functions.
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How to prevent "Desktop is more recent ... Save anyway?" when closing Emacs?
Whenever I open Emacs twice in the same directory, close the 1st and then close the 2nd it prompts: "Desktop is more recent than the one loaded. Save anyway (y or n)?" Quite a mouthful and ...
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desktop save and themes conflict
Using 29.1 on RHEL and MacOS. I was trying to clean up all my fonts and colors with a theme but it kept changing the colors when I'd restart. I finally figured out that it's desktop-save including ...
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using desktop.el in --daemon mode
I eventually figured out that the answer to this question https://groups.google.com/g/gnu.emacs.help/c/WZoW0LlqX6c/m/08Sa6alHp1oJ was to choose --bg-daemon rather than --fg-daemon when starting the ...
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desktop+ not saving term/shell buffer
For session management, I was happy with inbuilt desktop.el except that it could not retain the term/shell buffers. Everytime I quit emacs, it asked to kill the term/shells. Then I read the ability of ...
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What is the purpose of storing timestamps in the .emacs.desktop file?
With activated option Save State between Sessions from Emacs Menu -> Options Emacs saves its configuration in an .emacs.desktop file. Below comparison of the differences of the original file ...
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When desktop save mode set, emacs reverts to old custom themes
I was playing around a bit with custom themes. I found that using them would mess with my other settings and decided I wanted to revert to the standard emacs theme. I disabled the themes in question ...
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How to prevent `desktop-save-mode` from opening multiple windows?
I want to restart Emacs at the same cursor position in the file (or buffer) I was just working on. In my Emacs config I have the following code to try and do this: (use-package desktop :straight ...
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Using `desktop-read` to reload frames -- closing one frame closes all frames
A very annoying issue with desktop-save and desktop-read that I'm encountering at the moment: I'm starting Emacs in daemon-mode, and then open a client frame. I do desktop-read and my saved desktop ...
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