I've tried the following in versions 26.3, 27.1, and 28.1.  If you use

desktop-save in a non-GUI (-nw) run of emacs, with no init.el loaded

(-Q), and then exit emacs, upon reentry, while the files that were

loaded in buffers at the time of the save are present, the windows are

not restored properly. Only one window is correct -- and only one window

is present.  If you start emacs without the "-nw" option, however,

everything works just fine.

 

For some of us who SSH into servers, we have no option but to use the

non-GUI version of emacs.

 

Note, I started this ticket in an emacs invocation with "-nw" but

without specifying "-Q", so my minimal, test init.el was executed. It appears

below:

 

  (desktop-save-mode 1)

  (setq desktop-load-locked-desktop nil)

  (desktop-read)

 

This bug report was issued from Ubuntu 20.04.  However, I can see the

exact same behavior on macOS as well.

 

-- Eric

 

In GNU Emacs 28.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20, cairo version 1.16.0)

 of 2022-04-06 built on lcy02-amd64-033

Repository revision: 8b4be592de49fddc996ebb3e544256e20c81cf85

Repository branch: master

System Description: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS

 

Configured using:

 'configure --prefix=/snap/emacs/current/usr --with-x-toolkit=gtk3

 --without-xaw3d --with-modules --with-cairo --with-native-compilation

 'CFLAGS=-isystem/build/emacs/parts/emacs/install/usr/include

 -isystem/build/emacs/parts/emacs/install/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu

 -O2' 'CPPFLAGS=-isystem/build/emacs/parts/emacs/install/usr/include

 -isystem/build/emacs/parts/emacs/install/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu'

 'LDFLAGS=-L/build/emacs/parts/emacs/install/lib

 -L/build/emacs/parts/emacs/install/usr/lib

 -L/build/emacs/parts/emacs/install/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

 -L/build/emacs/parts/emacs/install/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu''

 

Configured features:

ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG

JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSELINUX LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES

NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND THREADS TIFF

TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS X11 XDBE XIM XPM GTK3 ZLIB

 

Important settings:

  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8

  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus

  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

 

Major mode: Shell-script

 

Minor modes in effect:

  sh-electric-here-document-mode: t

  desktop-save-mode: t

  tooltip-mode: t

  global-eldoc-mode: t

  show-paren-mode: t

  electric-indent-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  tool-bar-mode: t

  menu-bar-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: t

  font-lock-mode: t

  blink-cursor-mode: t

  auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

  line-number-mode: t

  indent-tabs-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t

 

Load-path shadows:

None found.

 

Features:

(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny rfc822 mml mml-sec epa

derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs

auth-source eieio eieio-core eieio-loaddefs password-cache json map

text-property-search mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231

mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums

mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils mule-util term/xterm xterm dired-aux dired

dired-loaddefs time-date sh-script smie executable comp comp-cstr

warnings subr-x rx cl-seq cl-macs cl-extra help-mode seq byte-opt gv

bytecomp byte-compile cconv desktop frameset cl-loaddefs cl-lib

site-start iso-transl tooltip eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook

vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/x-win x-win

term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe

tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register

page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select

scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors

frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang

vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932

hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic

chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook

jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice button

loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay

sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget

hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2

dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo

move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process

native-compile emacs)

 

Memory information:

((conses 16 101029 8397)

 (symbols 48 8635 1)

 (strings 32 24989 3159)

 (string-bytes 1 873580)

 (vectors 16 16905)

 (vector-slots 8 309235 14578)

 (floats 8 31 41)

 (intervals 56 574 0)

 (buffers 992 17))