Re: Saving Session w/ Multiple Independently Positioned Terminals

Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> At Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:28:12 -0400 Bob Barrett <bobbrrtt <at> earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>   
>>> I want ~12 desktops with one or two terminal windows on each. I want
>>> all of these to appear in a specific organization when I login. I know
>>> about gnome-session-save and I've played around a bit with
>>> --sm-client-id and such but I'm not making much progress.
>>>
>>> Can someone please explain to me how to launch multiple independently
>>> positioned terminals and save that session. What gnome-terminal
>>> arguments do I want to use so that gnome-session-save does the right
>>> thing?
>>>
>>> This seems like such a simple thing to want to do. I must be doing
>>> something wrong.
>>> 2008-09-18
>>> Pls advise,
>>> Mike
>>>   
>>>       
>> I, too, would like to know how to save multiple open terminals as part
>> of a saved session. Since Mike's request is two months old and there
>> have been no responses, should we accept that it cannot be done?
>>
>> I, typically, run the default setup of four desktops. I usually have
>> two xterms open on each of three of those desktops. When I exit Gnome,
>> and return, only one or two of those six terminals open. It's only a
>> minor irritation. It doesn't take long to reopen the other four, but
>> why doesn't gnome-session-save work for the terminals? I don't mind
>> manually editing configuration files, if I knew the syntax to use.
>> I haven't mentioned which Gnome release I have, because I'm in KDE,
>> and this has always been the case as far back as I can remember.
>>
>> There's much to like about Gnome, but I usually put all six xterms to
>> work when I'm in X. It's more often KDE because of this.
>>
>> It would be greatly appresiated if someone would let Mike and me in on
>> the secret.
>>     
>
> What I do is have one extra item in my session: a shell script.
> This script launches a bunch of apps
>
> To get them in the right place on the right desktop is a window
> manager thing.  Presumably a powerful wm like sawfish would do it.
> Certainly e did it when I used that.
>
> Now that I use metacity (the gnome default) I use an add-on program
> called devilspie which allows me to have various apps appear in
> various desktops.
>
> hth,
> allan
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Thanks, Allan. I'll try all three.

Bob