Hi, I'm using GNOME with sawfish as the window manager.
In GNOME's control centre, I have ticked the option to "automatically save changes to session". This appears to work: when I log in (using gdm), the applications that were running in my last session are restarted. Sawfish, like any modern window manager, has "virtual desktops" that they call "workspaces". I have it configured to open seven workspaces. I normally have one or two xterms in each workspace. Some workspaces will have an xemacs window or two, and there is usually a netscape window open, too. After I "logout" from the gnome session, and log back in, all the same windows open -- as near as I can tell -- but THEY ALL OPEN ON WORKSPACE #1 which makes an unholy mess. Am I doing something wrong? I'd like each window to appear on the same workspace that it occupied in the previous session. I've scoured the control centre for a relevant option, but failed to find it. Or is it a bug in the code somewhere? There is one exception that I have noticed in casual usage: gmix will open up on the same workspace it was on in the last session. Does it do something that the other applications do not? Who needs to fix things: sawfish, gnome, or all the application writers? (Hopefully not the latter -- that would be a real mess) I should mention versions. I am using Debian "unstable" (with Debian GNOME, no Ximian packages), apt-get upgraded as of a day or two ago. But this problem has been ongoing for months. In fact, I think it has been this way for the two years that I've been using GNOME. For any help or advice that you can offer, many thanks, -Steve
