Looking for a suitable window manager capable of replacing the old sawfish

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:48:35 +0530
> From: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer at gmail.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am migrating from RedHatLinux-7.2 to FreeBSD-7.1. I am used to 
> RHL-7.2's sawfish which was capable of remembering window placement, 
> size and position of X clients. I am looking for a gnome-compliant 
> window manager on FreeBSD-7.1 which can do the same. Neither 
> metacity nor the new sawfish seem to be able to do the job.
> 
> Can anybody please make a suggestion ?

The inability to remember sessions is a problem with Gnome 2.24, not
with the window manager. It seems that gnome-session for 2.24 was
shipped with the "save session" routing turned into a no-op. This has
resulted in several significant Linux distros staying on Gnome 2.22.

See http://np237.livejournal.com/22014.html for more details.

At this time, I know of no fix. I have worked around it by setting up
startup tasks to fire up the applications I want at login. No the same
thing, but better than a blank desktop.
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