Comment 6 for bug 65841

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 02:46:54AM -0000, DH wrote:
> I am seeing this bug with Ubuntu Feisty.
>
> Close firefox (or thunderbird) and open them again, and they do not
> appear in the same place they were.
>
> I saw these instructions from 2006 for some kind of "advanced window settings" option in gnome, but there was no such option when right clicking on the title bar of a window or clicking on the title icon:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-36505.html%3C/t-199815.html
>
> I was going to report it as a firefox/thunderbird bug (missing feature), but they apparently explicitly don't include the window saving/loading state code in their unix builds, since "since "unix types seem to prefer that Mozilla not override the window positioning provided by their window managers":
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31086
>
> So the question is, is there still some kind of "advanced settings"
> where I can have gnome remember window positions, and where are they.
> Please enable the saving of window position by default in Gutsy if the
> functionality is already there.
>

For me gnome doesn't remember position of windows at all ... though I
just tried with gnome-terminal.

Does it work for you for non firefox applications?

 - Alexander