Session save doesn't seem to save terminal workspace

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:17:44PM +0100, killermoehre wrote:
> Am Fr 31 Jan 2014 22:57:33 CET schrieb Chris Green:
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 09:41:05PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> >> When I close down (and as per the other thread) my session gets saved I
> >> have 7 terminal windows open of five different workspaces.
> >>
> >> When I restart all 7 terminal windows appear in workspace 1.
> >>
> >> Is this a known bug?
> >>
> > After a little further investigation I think this may be a timing
> > problem.  When the windows are restored it *sometimes* gets one in the
> > right place.
> >
> > Related to this I used to use wmctrl to place my terminal windows and
> > that too suffers from the same problem.  If you use wmctrl to place the
> > terminal windows too soon after they have appeared then it doesn't work.
> > If you delay a second or so after the windows have appeared then it
> > works OK.
> >
> > This has only started happening recently - after moving to xubuntu
> > 13.10.
> >
> 
> I always suggest devilspie[1] for this.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/DevilsPie
> 
I tried devilspie a long time ago and found it caused me more problems
than it solved, that's why I moved to wmctrl.


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Chris Green