[desktop-discuss] two terminal questions

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 20 May 2008, Glenn Glazer wrote:
>
> 2) When I log off, is there way to save my session such that all of the 
> terminals come back with the same names and on the proper workspaces?  I'm 
> less picky about size, I can always resize later. 
> These two questions are geared toward recovering the state of the workspaces 
> after a log off.

After a rather long discussion earlier on this list, it has become 
clear that the answer to this question is "use CDE".  Unfortunately, 
CDE is about to become defunct.

Besides GNOME's inability to restore workspace sessions, there is the 
little problem that new X11 windows automatically are given focus even 
if the window manager is in "focus follows mouse" mode.  It is quite 
disconcerting (and dangerous) to all of a sudden be typing in some 
other window simply because a window appeared.  It is a sort of denial 
of service.  CDE does not have this problem.

On the plus side, I have yet to see an application accidentally jump 
from one workspace to another as sometimes occurs with CDE.

Bob
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