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GEdit 'Session Saver'

I use 'session saver' with GEdit on Ubuntu 11.10. I would like to know where GEdit stores them so that I can automatically back it using DropBox. Session Saver: Allow to bookmark working sessions ...
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Windows-7 audio: controlling volume of applications on different user session

My usecase is as this. The PC is shared and there are two users logged in at the same time. The first user puts internet radio on speaker, has got browser running with some rogue tab opened that ...
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Display remote X session (complete desktop) in one client X window

Situation: From Windows I connect to a remote Linux using putty with X11 port forwarding. Xming is able to display the desktop session in ONE Windows window. If I connect from Linux with "ssh -Y ...
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Last Tabs in User Data — How do I open it into tabs on Chrome

My Chrome browser crashed, but did not "restore" last session. It found the last tabs open, but it's all in code, although I can see the URLs. How do I open it in the browser itself, getting the ...
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Is sharing a tmux sockets between hosts possible?

I'm wondering if it's possible to share a tmux server socket between different hosts. For example, I have a virtual machine (guest) running inside my host, and I'm running a tmux session in the guest, ...
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Force logout a user

I When I logged into the machine as root and typed who to see which users are logged in, I found somebody else too logged in as root devuser pts/0 2011-11-18 09:55 (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) root ...
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Is it possible to maintain two concurrent Facebook sessions in the same browser?

I'm doing a lot of development with the Facebook API and it would be useful if I could be logged-in to the site with two separate accounts at the same time. Currently I use two browsers to do this, ...
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I accidentally hit “close other tabs” in Firefox, but I can't restore them over “recently closed tabs”

I accidentally hit "close other tabs" in Firefox 7, but I can't restore them over "recently closed tabs". How can I get my tabs back? Under "recently closed tabs" there are only the tabs I closed ...
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Windows Server 2003: this computer is in use and has been locked - disable it

Windows Server 2003 will lock the screen after ten minutes of idle time. In a production environment of course, this is NOT a problem. Using Windows in a development environment, I don't need to ...
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My PC is creating multiple sessions on websites I log into?

The administrator of one of the online games i regularly play recently brought to my attention that whenever i log on, multiple sessions of my account are created. Until yesterday this was not a ...
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Most efficient method of storing URLs for later viewing? — e.g. Bookmark addon [closed]

I have 200 tabs open in Firefox (3 windows), 100 tabs open in Opera (1 window), 37 tabs open in Chrome (1 window) and 51 tabs open in Firefox Nightly (x64, v9; 2 windows). Obviously my efficiency has ...
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Raise the SMB session limit in Windows 7 Pro

Is it possibble to increase the number of allowed SMB sessions to more than 20 under Windows 7 Enterprise SP1?
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Vim - Session management issues

When I save and load a session (with split, vsplit and a different file) in Vim (or Gvim) with :mks and :source, or with a session manager plugin I can't load what I saved. For example : ======= ...
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Somekind of “Cookies Manager” for Firefox 5?

I'll explain what I need. Somedays ago, Google changed the way Google Apps store the login cookies. Making identical as a normal Google (@gmail) account. Before this, I was able to be logged in with ...
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Runing a command without inheriting parent's environment

Is there a way to run a command "as if" it is in a new login session? I've already tried env -i. However, I don't want to deal with various ENV variables I have to set or unset. I've also tried bash ...
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session sharing issue in Firefox

Firefox (3.6.18) shares session when application is opened in multiple tabs. I want to prevent this, on every opened tab there should be a new session so that data state in the session should not be ...
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Windows Command Line Session ID

How can I retrieve the current user session ID via windows command line?
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Get error messages from gnome-shell

I want to run gnome-shell on my PC. I have Ubuntu and gnome-shell is installed from ppa. When I run: gnome-shell --replace the session fails - I am on the GDM login screen and can't get any error ...
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Logging out of one application causes sessions to be destroyed in all other web applications -How to Fix?

I have two web applications deployed in a corporate environment on IE6/8: App A uses smart card authentication, App B is just standard authentication When App A logs out/de-authenticates, it seems to ...
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Why does gvim open session with extra/duplicate tabs?

I'm running gvim, have 2 files open in 2 tabs. I save the current session via the sessionman plugin by Yuri Klubakov. I close gvim (or keep gvim open but close the session, doesn't matter). When I ...
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KDE 3.5 clean session even after power loss

I want to start every time clean session of KDE even after power loss. Now kde remember last runned apps and for example firefox run with error. Thats happens because I use Autostart to run firefox in ...
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How to locally resume a session that has been started remotely using xrdp?

Is it possible to connect to a RD session that has been started (and abandoned) from a remote machine using xrdp? Also I'd like to be able to do the exact opposite: to remotely login to a session that ...
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Is there a Chrome plugin to create separate session in a tab?

Say I wanted to login to two gmail accounts. I could have one tab that has it's own session, and another tab that has another isolated session. I understand Gmail has this feature for managing ...
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Two desktop sessions on iMac [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Can a Mac be used by multiple users at same time? Hi, I have an iMac with 2nd monitor attached. Can I start yet another desktop session on the 2nd monitor for another ...
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Is it possible to run two windows sessions from the same computer at the same time?

A friend asked me if it is possible to have two screen/keyboards/mouse connected to one computer, and allowing two users to use the computer as if they where using two different computers (one ...
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Separate user sessions on separate monitors

If I have a single computer with two monitors, two keyboards and two mice, is it possible to have two separate users logged into the same machine simultaneously? And if so, how? My preference is to ...
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How to make Safari open all tabs in previous session?

Is it possible to make safari to open all tabs of previous session? (Currently using the latest Safari 5 on Windows Vista)
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How to get the “well, this is embarrassing” screen every time I start Firefox

Sometimes, when Firefox doesn't quits cleanly (pêrhaps because it crashed, or because the whole computer crashed or didn't successfully terminated Firefox when shutting down), Firefox shows a Well, ...
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Is it possible to open a second shell session that will remember the user, machine, and directory I am in?

I'm ssh'ed into a machine and logged in as a different user. Is it possible to open a few new windows that will still be ssh'ed into that same machine, still logged in as that user?
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Renaming a session

In bash I can start a named screen by doing screen -S test If I type ctrl-a A new_screen_name it only changes the title of the screen. When I do a screen -r I see the session name is still ...
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Proper way to configure ~/.Xsession with a standalone window manager to gracefully end a session

I'm using xdm and my ~/.Xsession looks like this: # <initialization stuff here> exec openbox It works, but I've noticed that when I log out Openbox doesn't gracefully kill all the ...
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GNU screen sessions are dead after rebooting computer — how to fix this?

Whenever I reboot my computer, all GNU screen sessions die. I have to remove them with screen -wipe How can I fix that? Telling GNU screen to store sessions in my home directory apparently doesn't ...
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How to view TightVNC recordings

TightVNC allows you to record VNC sessions. It saves them in fbs files. I'm trying to playback these files. There does not appear to be anything that can play these that come with TightVNC. All my ...
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Can an active user session be “assumed” under Linux?

Outside of using something like screen, is it possible to 'assume' an active user session under Linux/UNIX? For example, I ssh to my server from home. Then I ssh to it form work. I want to kill the ...
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same website - two user accounts [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How to maintain different active sessions in single firefox and internet explorer? I have a website (vmware lab manager) that obviously stores session state. I want to ...
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resumable bash sessions with branch maintenance

Is there a utility that streamlines the storing and restoring of bash sessions? I'd like to be able to do EG $ KUNG=pao $ foo commit # saves the current environment # as an anonymous ...
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How to disable broadcast messages on my linux session?

I get every 10 min many broadcast messages (maybe by other user). How can I disable those broadcast messages, in order to not see them on my screen?
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How I can make sudo session an hour and not few minutes in Ubuntu 10.04?

How I can make sudo Ubuntu 10.04 session an hour and not few minutes? Now I have to write my password for sudo commands every few minutes.
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How can I reconnect a NX session?

Server: neatx-server 0.3.1+svn59-0~ppa1~lucid1 Client: NX Client for Windows 3.4.0-7 Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I googled and couldn't find any documentation on this topic... How can I ...
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Is there a way to save “work sessions” in linux

I regularly work on different projects, using different software. For project 1 I need to open for ex : Filezilla, Gedit and Nautilus (set to a specific folder) For project 2 I need to open foz ex : ...
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Sharing the same `ssh-agent` among multiple login sessions

Is there a convenient way to ensure that all logins from a given user (ie me) use the same ssh-agent? I hacked out a script to make this work most of the time, but I suspected all along that there ...
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Firefox: Is there a way to store my tabs on the net and restore in a different machine?

I use at least two computers, Firefox is installed on both of them (latest version). Is there an addon that stores my current tabs somewhere on the net, and then restores them on a different machine? ...
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I am not seeing named session in gnu screen

I am tying to learn gnu screen. I am using mac(snow leopard). I am running 4.00.03 version of screen. I am starting a new screen with following command screen -S foo However after that if I do ...
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Firefox Add-on for Opening Pages in Separate “Sandboxes” [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How to maintain different active sessions in single firefox and internet explorer? Is there a Firefox add-on that will allow someone to easily open up a page in a new ...
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Where does Firefox store the opened windows/tabs/urls for Session Restore after a crash?

In which location and file does Firefox save the last windows I had opened (when Firefox crashed)? I have a complete "hot dump" copy of a file system and need to restore the state Firefox was when ...
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Internet Explorer 8 remembering me (keeping cookies) in “New Session”

From what I gather (e.g. http://tutorialfeed.blogspot.com/2009/06/ie-8-perk-access-multiple-gmail.html ) one can get a new IE8 window clean from older cookies and independent of what's going on in ...
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Moving windows between GNU screen sessions

Is there a way to move windows between different screen sessions? For example lets say I have this scenario: screen -S screen1 vim *.cpp C-a d screen -S screen2 Is there any way to move my shell ...
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What software supports full multisession CD burning on windows?

I know, that beating Nero in this field is very difficult. I have looked through best software listed in wiki, also checked the related posts here and here: most of the software either allows you to ...
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Can I find the session ID for a user logged on to another machine?

I want to open an application on another computer on the same network via the command line. The scenario here is that the user is in a room surrounded by about 20 computers and wants to be able to ...
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Is there a way in Linux to update the user/group properties without having to login again?

After I edit /etc/group and I add a user to groups it didn't belong to, the user will not be able to use it's newly acquired privileges unless it starts a new session. Is there a command to refresh ...

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