Re: [HC Support] Re: Gnome 1.4 Woes

[Jamin Philip Gray <jgray writeme com>]

> Werner Puschitz wrote:
> > 
> > On 2 May 2001, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > 
> > > On 26 Apr 2001 20:05:42 -0400, Werner Puschitz wrote:
> > >
> > > > o I usually use about 8 virtual screens. Now when I position my terminals
> > > >   on the screens, logout, and login again, then the position of all my
> > > >   terminals on the virtual screens get changed. And this is very annoying
> > >
> > > Do you run sawfish? If so, under the sawfish options in gnomecc there is
> > > are checkboxes for "automatically remember window positions" and "...
> > > window sizes", probably under Placement. May be that you need to turn on
> > > advanced settings for sawfish (in section Meta), too. I think that
> > > should help, but haven't verified it myself.
> > >
> > 
> > No, this doesn't help at all. All my sawfish options are set to
> > automatically remember window positions, sizes etc. As soon as I logout
> > and login again, all xterm windows are moved to the first virtual
> > desktop/screen. I usually update my Ximian desktop once every month and
> > this problem started about a half year ago.
> > This week I will move my desktop from RH 6.2 to RH 7.1 and maybe this
> > problem will go away.
> > 
> > Werner
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> 
> Same problem with me.  I never figured out why this happens.  Is there
> a bug report for this problem?  I upgraded recently from RH 6.2 to
> RH 7.0 and that did not help.  I will eventually upgrade to RH 7.1.
> Hopefully it will fix it.

I think the real question is what version of sawfish are you running,
not what version of Redhat.  If you have the latest sawfish and are
still experiencing the problem, I'd file a bug report if there's not
one already.

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