From: Randall Parker 

On a desktop PC (not a laptop) running a Linux 2.6.x kernel I want to be
able to suspend a single process (e.g FireFox) and then shut down my Linux
Fedora Core 5 box, and then start up again and then restore the FireFox
process to exactly the place it was before it was suspended. So all windows
and tabs will have exactly the content they had when I suspended that
process.

It would be handy to be able to hibernate all processes running as my user.
But if I could just do this to individual processes I really only need to
hibernate 2 or 3 processes.

I use KDE 3.5.5. I used to have Gnome as the desktop and I think it had a
full hibernate. But the shutdown choices for KDE do not have such a
feature.

I've gone into KDE Control Center | KDE Components | Session Manager | On
Login and selected "Restore manually saved session". That gives a
Save Session option. But if I use that, shut down, reboot, it just freshly
starts the list of apps I previously had running. Though it remembers some
things about which command interpreters were open. Still, it is not saving
the entire state of a process.

So is there a way to save the entire state of a process?

Is there a way to save the entire state of all user processes for my login session?

I'm looking for either selective single process hibernate or a wider
ranging hibernate and restore.

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