sawfish2-1.3_2,2 won't retain gnome-terminal window sizes

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Using sawfish2-1.3_2,2 under gnome2-2.2.1_1, the gnome-terminal window
sizes are not being retained. Every time that I start up Gnome, the
gnome-terminal windows get resized to some apparent default. Saving
gnome sessions upon exit does not alter this, even AFTER resizing the
gnometerminal-2.2.2 windows.

I managed, somehow, to "fix this" under FBSD-4.8, but can't find a way
to reestablish the desired gnome-terminal window sizes under FBSD-5.1.