On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Ghee Teo wrote: > In the 'launch' menu, preferences->sessions > click on the Session Options tab, > Select either one of those option for your session.
I found the Sessions options screen. It provides options o Show splash screen on login o Prompt on logout o Automatically save changes to session The first two are checked and the third is not. However, I specifically chose to save the current session (a carefully crafted session) at time of logout. It does start most of the programs, but all on the initial workspace rather than the workspaces (I have 10 workspaces) where they were before. The startup does not make use of the launcher used to originally start the program. It is pretty disconcerting to have 50+ windows pile up on the screen at login since it takes quite a while to configure a productive working environment again. CDE (now apparently deprecated) does not have these problems. It preserves original window locations, size, and workspace, and uses the original "launcher" (f.exec menu entry in dtwmrc) which started the program so that programs get started perfectly on the correct hosts. My CDE menu includes options to start programs on other hosts since as Sun used to say, "The network is the computer". Likewise, I have Gnome launchers which arrange to start programs on other hosts so if Gnome's session restarter used the launcher rather than just remembering the names of the programs running on the desktop, then it should be possible for programs to be started on the correct hosts. Instead of getting a terminal program started where it was running before, all termals are now running on the local host. I wrongly assumed that using only Gnome aware programs would help fix the startup issue. So I used gnome-terminal everywhere. It did not help at all. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
