At Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:28:12 -0400 Bob Barrett <bobbrrtt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list