bug#5512: Automatically saving and restoring an Emacs session in GNOME

[Jan Djärv]

Reuben Thomas skrev:
> On 8 February 2010 07:49, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:
> > Reuben Thomas skrev:
> > > On 2 February 2010 19:45, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:
> > > > Maybe your Emacs was built without libSM?  Did you compile it yourself?
> > > > In that case, check if HAVE_X_SM is defined in src/config.h.
> > > It is the standard Ubuntu build of Emacs 23.1, and it is linked
> > > against libSM. Is there any other information I can give?
> > >
> > > Here's the output that report-emacs-bug gives:
> > Start emacs and do
> > C-h v x-session-id.
>
> Its value is
> "1054f6786d2b365c6e126377503438154000000015820035"
>
> > C-h v emacs-save-session-functions
>
> Its value is nil
>
> > C-h v emacs-session-filename
>
> No such variable; there is a function of this name, however...

Yes sorry.  Anyway, you have session suport compiled in and Emacs talks to the 
session manager.

Do you have a directory ~/.emacs.d and is it writable?  If you start emacs, 
log out and then in again, do you have any session.* files in emacs.d?
Or any ~/.emacs.session.* files?

        Jan D.