On Sun 2018.09.16 at 17:10 +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2018-09-16, ?????????? ???????????? <a23s4a2...@yandex.ru> wrote: > > Thank you very much, it works. > > I always thought this would restart my whole session and I would loose > > all my open windows. > > It does actually restart the window manager, but information relating to > the session (group etc) is stored "attached" to the clients in "atoms" > so that it can be picked up by the new cwm instance, you shouldn't > notice any difference after it's done restarting and loading that > information.
Late to the game here; as mentioned by others, cwm does retain state upon restart/reload; there are a few things that are not retained however, such as client name history, previous client geometries and such.