Re: Saving Workspace

["Andrea Vettorello" <andrea vettorello gmail com>]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Michael B Allen <ioplex gmail com> wrote:
> On 4/5/08, Andrea Vettorello <andrea vettorello gmail com> wrote:
>  > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Michael B Allen <ioplex gmail com> wrote:
>  >  > Hi Sean,

[...]

>  > It's a known problem, and there isn't yet a (good?) solution:
>  >
>  >  http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/03/08/session-management/
>
>  I don't know anything about the internals of gnome but as a programmer
>  I'm going to go out on a limb here and pass judgement.
>
>  It seems to me someone has f***ed up big-time. Obviously it's not
>  impossible to collect a list of windows, their properties and the
>  commands that started them. Other window managers have no problem
>  doing this (e.g. WindowMaker).
>
>  The nice thing about standards is that if they suck you can ignore them.

I don't have an opinion in the matter, but I don't use Metacity and
the last time I've tried I could track the windows positions between
sessions, but it's a feature that I don't use.

The only application I've in my session is GKrellM and it manages the
position itself... ^__^;


-- 
Andrea