Bob: Yes, save session is a lot more sucky in GNOME than CDE. It's one area GNOME just isn't as good.
>> 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 Hmm. There should be a preferences program that allows you to specify what "Startup Programs" are launched on login. " Using this GUI you can specify by hand the command to run. This is better than trying to use the "automatically save my current desktop" feature which (as you notice) doesn't work so well (since many programs don't support GNOME session management interfaces). One advantage to specifying the commands by hand is you can specify --geometry arguments to specify where the programs start up. Not as nice to have to do this by hand, but probably the only way to get the behavior you want. Basically this is just a GUI front-end for modifying your $HOME/.gnome2/session file, which is documented in the default-session(5) manpage. Basically programs in this file get started automatically when you log in. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to specify which workspace programs should be launched on. Perhaps someone else could help? Brian
