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>Session Management is an extension to the X Window
	system which allows applications to save and restore their
	state. This allows users to have their desktop look like they
	left it, rather than having a clean desktop every time they
	re-enter the GNOMosphere.</P
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>Dr. Mike of RedHat has written a tutorial on this:
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