On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 03:54, Alastair Scott wrote: > On 29 Sep 2002 17:57:02 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Okay, I give up... > > > > I've installed 9.0 and overall I'm satisfied, however there is one thing > > that is driving me crazy. > > > > In Gnome, every application opens in the same location, the upper left > > corner, no matter where I position the window, the next time I open it > > the application are alway in the upper left corner. Some of the apps > > will remember their size, but none will remember their last position. > > > > Anyone have any ideas on how to get Gnome2 to remember the size and > > positions of the windows?? > > This is one of the unfortunate side-effects of changing the window manager > from sawfish (Gnome 1.4) to metacity (Gnome 2.0.x), which is much simpler > but also less capable ... > > One _can_ change the window manager back to sawfish, but it appears to be a > can of worms (try a search for 'gnome metacity sawfish' on Google). I > haven't managed to get the change to stick between sessions yet. > > Alastair > > > > > ----
Thanks for the info. I hope the Gnome developers are aware of this unwanted "feature" and are planning to do something about it soon.
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