GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 86539
session not being saved correctly
Last modified: 2009-08-15 18:40:50 UTC
Testing a build from CVS 25th June I set up 5 workspaces I opened the following apps in the following workspaces: Workspace 1 - gnome-calculator Workspace 2 - gedit Workspace 3 - eog I made Workspace 1 the current display and logged out and ticked save session box. Logged back in and - Only 2 workspaces were present (Workspace 3 - 5 were missing) - Workspace 2 was current display - Gedit was displayed in Worksace 2 but Nautilus application was also opened (home folder) in Workspace 2 - Workspace 3 (with eog), 4 & 5 disappeared - Desktop icons all sitting on top of each other. Note: gnome-calculator and gedit were displayed in the correct workspaces. A fix was put in for gedit and saving itself correctly in gnome sessions (bug #84986) - could this have had an impact?
Fede, Jacob: comments?
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This was discussed on the mailing list: http://lists.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-June/msg00588.html Are you using metacity? Sawfish didn't seem to have these problems.
yes - i am using metacity
Re-assigning to Metacity, then.
I don't actually buy that this is a metacity bug. (Well, there are several bugs here. But losing number of workspaces, and piling up desktop icons, do not sound like metacity bugs to me. Failing to remember the current space is a metacity bug but I don't think it's the main issue.)
any news on this bug?
not from my side of things...
I tested this bug on solaris sparc 5.8 with the source on "July 25". I followed the same sequence as given in the bug and found the following : 1. I am getting all the 5 workspaces. 2. calculator was seen on 1st WS. 3. Gedit was also seen on 1st WS. This is a bug. 4. EOG didn't come up at all. This is a bug.
Looks like the issues still remaining are: 1) GEdit coming on workspace 1 always 2) EOG not coming up (though process is running) 3) Nautilus desktop icons sitting on top of each other. Havoc: If you feel that 1) above is a metacity bug, do we need to file a separate bug against metacity? Louie: Can somebody look into the nautilus issue?
There is are existing bugs for the gedit problem - bug# 84986 - and for the EOG problem - bug #84989. The gedit problem was closed but reopened. The EGO problem was closed as fixed - please re-open if this issue is still visible.
The desktop icons are a separate bug and should be filed as such, with a specific reproduction scenario (we've been completely unable to duplicate that here.) Shane, thanks for tracking down the other two. I'm going to close this bug; anyone who wants to track these should be going to the other relevant bugs.
Filing new bug for desktop icons issue (bug #89124) - closing this bug.