Re: Session Restoring All Windows on First Workspace

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Am Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:58:54 -0400
schrieb Clinton Ebadi <clinton unknownlamer org>:

> 
> Greetings,
> 
> After getting a new laptop I decided to enter the modern world and say
> farewell to Window Maker after a decade... upon seeing that Sawfish was
> maintained I was rather happy (ah, a WM extensible with Lisp that isn't
> tiling!).

Tiling is available as scripts. Though all of them implement a different way of it.

> After a week of figuring out how all of the new desktop magic works I
> have a working sawfish setup except for one thing: when I logout and
> login all of my window are restored on workspace 0.
> 
> I am running:
> 
>  - Debian testing
>  - git sawfish/librep/etc
>  - gnome-session 2.30.2-1
> 
> My .xsession consists only of 'exec gnome-session'
> 
> I've attached the session file sawfish seems to be saving (not sure if
> it uses it?). The (workspaces . ...) property is being saved, and it
> *seems* to be restored, and yet the windows are still being restored on
> workspace 0.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

This is an old bug, once it was fixed by Jeremy, but it suddenly re-appeared.
We may ask, if he gets a look at it.

Chris