Re: Saving Session w/ Multiple Independently Positioned Terminals

[Bob Barrett <bobbrrtt earthlink net>]

Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> At Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:28:12 -0400 Bob Barrett <bobbrrtt earthlink net> wrote:
>
>   
> > > I want ~12 desktops with one or two terminal windows on each. I want
> > > all of these to appear in a specific organization when I login. I know
> > > about gnome-session-save and I've played around a bit with
> > > --sm-client-id and such but I'm not making much progress.
> > >
> > > Can someone please explain to me how to launch multiple independently
> > > positioned terminals and save that session. What gnome-terminal
> > > arguments do I want to use so that gnome-session-save does the right
> > > thing?
> > >
> > > This seems like such a simple thing to want to do. I must be doing
> > > something wrong.
> > > 2008-09-18
> > > Pls advise,
> > > Mike
> > >   
> > >       
> > I, too, would like to know how to save multiple open terminals as part
> > of a saved session. Since Mike's request is two months old and there
> > have been no responses, should we accept that it cannot be done?
> >
> > I, typically, run the default setup of four desktops. I usually have
> > two xterms open on each of three of those desktops. When I exit Gnome,
> > and return, only one or two of those six terminals open. It's only a
> > minor irritation. It doesn't take long to reopen the other four, but
> > why doesn't gnome-session-save work for the terminals? I don't mind
> > manually editing configuration files, if I knew the syntax to use.
> > I haven't mentioned which Gnome release I have, because I'm in KDE,
> > and this has always been the case as far back as I can remember.
> >
> > There's much to like about Gnome, but I usually put all six xterms to
> > work when I'm in X. It's more often KDE because of this.
> >
> > It would be greatly appresiated if someone would let Mike and me in on
> > the secret.
> >     
>
> What I do is have one extra item in my session: a shell script.
> This script launches a bunch of apps
>
> To get them in the right place on the right desktop is a window
> manager thing.  Presumably a powerful wm like sawfish would do it.
> Certainly e did it when I used that.
>
> Now that I use metacity (the gnome default) I use an add-on program
> called devilspie which allows me to have various apps appear in
> various desktops.
>
> hth,
> allan
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Thanks, Allan. I'll try all three.

Bob