Comment 20 for bug 221144

I did some research regarding the window restore problem and came to the conclusion that it most likely is a bug in gnome-terminal. You can work around this by using the old version 2.18 of gnome-terminal from Ubuntu 7.10. Therefore I recommend to assign this bug to the gnome-terminal developers to verify.

Things to try:

-open an xterm or similar non gnome-terminal terminal application

-start 2 gnome-terminal as background process (gnome-terminal &)

-move both windows around the desktop to a different position

-in the xterm call gnome-session-save

-example output of gnome-session-save:
Saving session: gnome-terminal --window-with-profile-internal-id=Default --show-menubar --role=gnome-terminal-6876--1795818576-1211528538 --active --geometry 80x24+84+634 --title pt@asterix: ~ --working-directory /data2/home/pt --zoom 1 --window-with-profile-internal-id=Default --show-menubar --role=gnome-terminal-6876--1889095960-1211528539 --active --geometry 80x24+661+470 --title pt@asterix: ~ --working-directory /data2/home/pt --zoom 1

-close both gnome-terminal

-execute the command as specified by gnome-session-save ("gnome-terminal ... --zoom 1")

-both gnome-terminal will be restored, but only the last one in the list will be restored to the right position

-if gnome-terminal is called one by one each one gets restored correctly:
first execute "gnome-terminal --window-with-profile-internal-id=Default --show-menubar --role=gnome-terminal-6876--1795818576-1211528538 --active --geometry 80x24+84+634 --title pt@asterix: ~ --working-directory /data2/home/pt --zoom 1" -> first window is restored; then close and execute "gnome-terminal --window-with-profile-internal-id=Default --show-menubar --role=gnome-terminal-6876--1889095960-1211528539 --active --geometry 80x24+661+470 --title pt@asterix: ~ --working-directory /data2/home/pt --zoom 1" -> second window is restored

It is also interesting that there is a difference in the content of .gnome2/session when calling gnome-session-save compared to when using the gnome session autosave feature! However content of .metacity/sessions/* is not different.

Also I see that window restore works when using compiz (most poeple do, as this is the default window manager in hardy?) but not in metacity. Compiz seems to rearrange the gnome-terminal windows (which do restore wrong by theirselfs in the first place) whilst metacity doesn't and will leave the windows in their wrong positions.