Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Ghee Teo wrote: > > >> 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, you are running Solaris 10. That's why the difference between what I said and what you saw. Solaris 10 is GNOME 2.6, Solaris Express Community Edition is GNOME 2.20. > The first two are checked and the third is not. However, I > specifically chose to save the current session (a carefully crafted > session) at time of logout. It does start most of the programs, but > all on the initial workspace rather than the workspaces (I have 10 > workspaces) where they were before. The startup does not make use of > the launcher used to originally start the program. It is pretty > disconcerting to have 50+ windows pile up on the screen at login since > it takes quite a while to configure a productive working environment > again. > I can see this is no pretty, but in some sense we are confined to work with the Open Source community. You can request the this be fixed in the number of ways:
(1) Since you are on Solaris 10, you can raise request to fix through the normal support channel on course Sun will charge you $$ on this as additional engineering efforts will need to be put in for a inactive version of GNOME (from the community point of view). (2) Raise bugs in http://bugzilla.gnome.org As we are working with the GNOME community to work on features and bugs as it is the most effective manner of getting at no cost but times efforts. (3) Log bug in http://bugzilla.gnome.org and fix this yourself and provide patches for the maintainers. This is not for the faint hearted and requires most times. -Ghee P.S. BTW, thanks for the detailed writeup. > CDE (now apparently deprecated) does not have these problems. It > preserves original window locations, size, and workspace, and uses the > original "launcher" (f.exec menu entry in dtwmrc) which started the > program so that programs get started perfectly on the correct hosts. > My CDE menu includes options to start programs on other hosts since as > Sun used to say, "The network is the computer". > > Likewise, I have Gnome launchers which arrange to start programs on > other hosts so if Gnome's session restarter used the launcher rather > than just remembering the names of the programs running on the > desktop, then it should be possible for programs to be started on the > correct hosts. Instead of getting a terminal program started where it > was running before, all termals are now running on the local host. > > I wrongly assumed that using only Gnome aware programs would help fix > the startup issue. So I used gnome-terminal everywhere. It did not > help at all. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
