Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 22:49:38 -0600 (CST) From: supraexpress@globaleyes.net To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Retaining multiple-tab terminal windows different for FBSD-4 and FBSD-5 Message-ID: <B0230098374@mercury.ll.net>
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I don't know why, but under FreeBSD-4.x (now 4.9) I am able to configure multiple-tabbed terminal windows, exit Gnome saving session changes, re-enter Gnome, and the size of the previously configured multiple-tabbed terminal windows are retained. Under FBSD-5.1/-5.2, the multiple-tabbed terminal windows are resized to a different size after Gnome is restarted (and the current session state is saved upon exit)?!? I DO use, however, a specific geometry setting in the Terminal properties Command (--geometry=90x23) which works as I want it to when I click on the Terminal icon. I use Sawfish in place of Metacity in all of my FreeBSD Gnome environments, but the "problem" ONLY occurs under FreeBSD-5.x. I have compared Sawfish saved session files for FreeBSD-5.x and FreeBSD-4.x, and they have the same syntax and structure, though specific coordinates for terminal windows/subwindows might be different. The "problem" is that the new Gnome session chooses a window geometry other than what I specified, but this ONLY happens for multiple-tabbed terminal windows. One thing that I HAVE noticed is that whenever I exit from Gnome under FreeBSD-4 that there is a brief screen flash with the last configured/placed terminal windows showing up where they would be if there were maxmized, even though they were minimized when I shut down Gnome. This does NOT happen with Gnome under FreeBSD-5.x. It almost seems that "Gnome" is verifying the size and placement of the terminal windows, but I suppose that this could also just be a meaningless artifact of the Gnome termination process, even though it ONLY happens, for me, under FBSD-4. FWIW, "Gnome" is the same version, or at least the same major version, in both FBSD-5 and FBSD-4, and I have seen this since FreeBSD-4.7 and 5.0. No amount of configuration changes, upgrading, or reinstalling of user files or applications has affected the results noted above, but for me - it does appear to be FBSD version specific and not Gnome/sawfish specific.
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