*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 124315 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124315
This may not be entirely within the window manager space, some
involvement with the toolkit may be required too... I do believe this is
a genuine problem, and by "passing the buck" and saying that it is
simply the applications issue, you are making yourself part of the
problem as described by Denny.
The window manager currently has a set of placement algorithms which put
windows in logical places on screen... however, Windows has solved this
problem with a solution which works very well (better??) in a specific
set of circumstances... I would not like to see every window
automatically placed where it was before, but it would be a great option
to have for certain classes of window (possibly needs an extra flag from
the app via the toolkit?)..
For example, within an application, opening a particular dialog
repeatedly, you would want the window to be placed the same way each
time... certain apps might do well to be restored to wherever they were
when they were last used...
I really believe that this is NOT wholly the responsibility of the app,
or any individual layer... but it would be good to have a framework for
the app to specify how placement of a window should be handled, to allow
this kind of functionality to become standard.
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Application windows do not restore to last known position.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391533
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