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Bug 533277 - window placement in saved sessions changes at login
window placement in saved sessions changes at login
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks: 107063
 
 
Reported: 2008-05-15 12:47 UTC by Ari Feinberg
Modified: 2020-11-06 20:05 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description Ari Feinberg 2008-05-15 12:47:26 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When logging in to a saved session, the windows load in the proper places, but when the rest of the desktop loads (i.e. panels), the windows lose their placement and usually align to the top left corner.

Steps to reproduce:
1. save session
2. logout
3. login


Actual results:
The windows arrange properly, but as soon as the panels load, the windows align to the top left.

Expected results:
I would expect the windows to remain in their locations I assigned when I saved my session.

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
It didn't used to happen. (pre 2.22)
Comment 1 Lucas Rocha 2008-05-15 14:59:21 UTC 
What window manager are you using? This has to do with window manager session state handling.
Comment 2 Ari Feinberg 2008-05-15 15:37:12 UTC 
using metacity.
Comment 3 Lucas Rocha 2008-05-15 16:05:26 UTC 
Re-assigning then.
Comment 4 Federico Mena Quintero 2008-05-26 20:55:06 UTC 
This happens for openSUSE too:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=375153
Comment 5 Hans Petter Jansson 2008-05-26 22:04:42 UTC 
The openSUSE bug has screenshots too.
Comment 6 André Klapper 2020-11-06 20:05:16 UTC 
bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org. We are closing all old bug reports in Bugzilla which have not seen updates for many years.

If you can still reproduce this issue in a currently supported version of GNOME (currently that would be 3.38), then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/metacity/-/issues/

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry it could not be fixed.