Saved sessions don't remember xfce workspaces

[markling]

The session manager opens almost all saved windows in the same workspace, regardless of which workspace they were in when they were saved.

This appears to be a problem related to the applications. Gedit windows, for example, are all restored to their prior workspaces. Firefox's are not. (Gedit seemed to be handling sessions brilliantly at first. It would also keep docs in quiet sleep until the remote data disk they came from was mounted again. But it appears now to be simply crashing out and not loading at all).

So, e.g. I just started from a saved session. The session opened in workspace 9 of 10. (I think this may have been the last active workspace at shutdown). The windows of that session had been spread across 10 workspaces. With the exception of terminal (I'm not sure if terminal knows what it's doing but it at least didn't pile into workspace 9 with all the others) and Gedit (which didn't open at all - it may not have made it into the saved session), they all loaded into worspace 9 : Firefox, Quod Libet, System Monitor, Okular, Tor, Thunar.

Some of these windows were already in workspace 9 when I shutdown. I shall have to catalogue the behaviour more carefully. But this at least gets the gist of the bug down.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: xfce4-session 4.10.0-2ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-35.50-generic 3.8.13.13
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-35-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 8 14:45:09 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-28 (464 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: xfce4-session
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-14 (297 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

After carefully reading the bug description I think that this report is a duplicate of bug 1371144.