Bug 522233

Summary:	Restored Firefox session interacts badly with multiple workspaces
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Christopher Beland <beland>
Component:	metacity	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	11	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, mcepl, sandmann
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Description Christopher Beland 2009-09-09 20:21:15 UTC

With firefox-3.5.2-2.fc11.i586, I use the Save Session 1.3.1.6 extension to save a session and exit.  The session has multiple windows open, on multiple workspaces.

After I restart Firefox, multiple windows open and start to load tabs. When I go to a different workspace than the one where I started Firefox, I see a bold, blue entry for e.g. "Firefox (6)" in the window toolbar at the bottom of the screen.  I click on it, and I see a list of the 6 separate windows.  But when I select one, nothing happens.  I would have expected that window to show up on the current workspace, or for the system to jump to the workspace where the new window wants to appear.  I have to actually go find the workspace on which I restarted Firefox, and click on each of the windows in turn, until they are no longer bolded.  Then I can move them between workspaces.

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2009-10-07 10:06:39 UTC

This seems to me like very much window manager issue. Which one do you use?

Thanks for filing the bug

Comment 2 Christopher Beland 2009-10-07 16:03:03 UTC

The Gnome default, Metacity.

Comment 3 Owen Taylor 2009-11-18 01:13:12 UTC

Probably related to bug 393481 in some way.

Does the Save Session extension attempt to:

 - Remember the workspace that the window was on?
 - Remember whether the window was minimized or not?

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