How to Set Workspace in Session Startup of OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird

Rahul Sundaram rahulsundaram at gmail.com
Sat Jan 1 19:50:22 UTC 2005


On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:43:47 -0800, Schlaegel <777tahder at schlaegel.com> wrote:
> Peter Arremann wrote:
> 
> >Do you have the feeling of deja-vu?
> >It's been a while that this topic came up but basicly metacity (the gnome
> >window manager by default) requires apps to have working session management.
> >Allowing the app to mess around with that by starting apps on specific
> >desktops has been decided to be a bad idea (something many people disagree
> >with) and stuff that used to work with fvwm (-xrm "*Desk: 1" and the like) or
> >window binding ala sawfish have never been implemented.
> >See the discussion here:
> >https://listman.redhat.com/archives/limbo-list/2002-July/msg00171.html
> >
> >
> I see that this is an old problem; I wasn't around these lists back in
> 2002. In the thread you mentioned, Havoc said that the spec has been
> around since 1994 and it only "takes a day or two to implement". Is
> everything still in the same state that it was in 2002?  It is hard for
> me to believe that Red Hat has not had the expertise, desire, and time
> to devote a day or two to get OpenOffice.org and Firefox session aware.


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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram




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