* On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 05:30:15PM +1000, Felix Sheldon wrote: > You probably know about the gnome-save-session command, but I thought I > might as well mention it.
Will try that. * On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 05:50:45PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Which apps in particular? Unfortunately, due to the way that old-school > currently stands - in the UI because so few apps actually support the > old-school X session stuff. Firefox is the biggest example here, being one Well, now not even Gnome Terminal - starts up, but not at the same size it was. I know about Firefox, etc - sort of had pious hopes that one day it'd be sorted out :) A possible solution would be to start up some apps at logon from Startup Programs, and set their screen size/position. But I notice under Gnome the window manager doesn't allow specifying a _Desktop_ to display things on. Is there a window manager that allows you to do this? How would I use a different window manager with Gnome? > Despite that, if you want to try the upstream style logout stuff, you can do > so by changing an Ubuntu-local gconf key: > > /apps/panel/global/upstream_session = true Thanks for all your pointers Jeff, I appreciate it! > I can only say sorry. :-) Nothing to be sorry about - one sets rather high expectations after using Linux for a while :) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them. One OS to call them all, And in salvation bind them. In the bright land of Linux, Where the hackers play. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
