Gnome Q: Application window save-data for restore when reopened?

[Sam Sharpe]

On 3 July 2011 22:35, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> I am sorry if this question was asked before,
>> but I was wondering why is it, that most app-
>> lication's main window do not restore it's
>> last save-data the next time it is opened?
>
> Because you are using Gnome ? and Gnome 3 even gets rid of the bits of it
> they didn't manage to hose before.
>
> I run XFCE, generally speaking all my apps re-appear almost immediately.
> One or two don;'t seem to set proper session info but most get it right.
>
>
> A useful experiment in your case might be to run XFCE and see if your
> apps then come back when you restart - it'll tell you if its the apps or
> the desktop are your root cause, and that tells you where to file the
> relevant bugs.

I think you are answering the wrong problem. That would be the debug
steps for the "my Desktop Session doesn't save" question, which is
slightly different to the "Why don't my applications remember their
last position and size when started" ;o)

-- 
Sam