Richard Owlett wrote: ... > What I would like would be to have differing sets of applications > available in each workspace.
i understood you the first time you wrote that. > Currently all workspaces have icons to access *_identical sets_* of > applications. something is set to do that then, because i can set all of my workspaces with different applications open in each of them. do you have "Always on Visible Workspace" set instead of "Only on this Workspace"? [right click on window or on item at the bottom of the screen...] i never shutdown without checking all desktops for things that need to be saved. but more importantly remember that if you don't use shutdown after the first time it will restart them all as you had them when you did shutdown. my normal end of session routine is to use the "shutdown -h now" command as root which kills everything and does not alter what is opened next time. when i want to make changes to my desktops then i do use the menu shutdown and that then records the changes as desired. songbird