Comment 13 for bug 771896

I have updated to 11.04 few days ago and was quite surprised to lose my session. Even when I switched to "Ubuntu Classic" I would still lose my session. So I googled and found this discussion.

To be frank I find developers' reasoning to be flawed and to a certain extent disturbing. Session saving might not have worked for some applications but it did work for many others and since it was present in Ubuntu for few years (I think) many people were relying on it. Disabling it seems like display of disregard towards users, but I can understand that sometimes decisions like that have to be made. What I don't understand is why was this removed even as an option? You know for people who decide to enable it. You basically removed it as a choice which seems totally unreasonable.

Proposition to use suspend/hibernate for session saving sounds like a cruel joke, for two reasons. Firstly, those features themselves are unreliable and slow. (Talk about broken features that have side effects.) Secondly, Ubuntu doesn't support rebootless kernel update, so suspend/hibernate hardly help in situations when you need to update your kernel, but even if it did they you still need to shutdown your computer once in a while.

I have switched to Xfce for now and session saving works there just fine.