Bug 115922

Summary:	gnome-session saves the non-GNOME applications only on the currently active desktop
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Charles R. Anderson <cra>
Component:	gnome-session	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
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Description Charles R. Anderson 2004-02-17 03:08:45 UTC

Description of problem:

gnome-session appears to save the non-GNOME applications (such as
xterm) only on the currently active desktop.  If you log out while on
the lower right desktop, for example, non-GNOME applications open on
the lower right desktop are saved, and no other desktops will have
their non-GNOME applications restored upon login.

GNOME applications are not affected by this problem--they are saved on
all desktops, regardless of the current one when logging out.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gnome-session-2.5.3-1

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open a bunch of xterms on different desktops.
2.  Change to one of the desktops.
3.  Logout, select "Save current setup" on the confirmation dialog.
4.  Wait a LONG time (panel is not operative) until X logs out.
5.  Log back in.
  
Actual results:

xterms are restored only on the desktop that you had been on when you
logged out.  All other desktops are empty of non-GNOME applications.

Expected results:

Session should be saved on all desktops, not just the current one, for
all applications, not just GNOME applications.  At the very least,
non-GNOME applications should be restarted, and on the same desktops
they were last open on.

Additional info:

This was a fresh install of FC2 test1 updated via yum to 2004-02-16
development.

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2004-11-08 20:45:05 UTC

Hi Charles.

Unfortunately, metacity has no way of keeping track of what workspace
non-session-manager-aware applications are on.

Most modern applications (not-limited to GNOME) are
session-manager-aware so this isn't much of an issue in practice. 
xterm is the big exception.  It's written to follow an older (X11R5)
session management protocol.