What should work

Window Manager:

• herbstluftwm ++ supports saving and reloading the layout
• bspwm
• i3
• wmii
• Wingo
• Add your wm: https://github.com/ctx/ws-session/wiki/Extend-ws-session#window-manager

Applications:

• qutebrowser
• dwb
• luakit
• zathura (zathurarc: set window-title-basename false)
• mupdf
• vim (on archlinux you need the gvim package)
• urxvt
• Add your application: https://github.com/ctx/ws-session/wiki/Extend-ws-session#application

ws-cmd

• htop
• mutt
• ssh user@host tmux attach
• man
• ...

Autostart

• Most GUIs will restart, but no files are reopened.

Menus

• dmenu
• zenity
• ...?