Retaining multiple-tab terminal windows different for FBSD-4 and FBSD-5

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 23:49, supraexpress at globaleyes.net wrote:
> I don't know why, but under FreeBSD-4.x (now 4.9) I am able to configure
> multiple-tabbed terminal windows, exit Gnome saving session changes,
> re-enter Gnome, and the size of the previously configured
> multiple-tabbed terminal windows are retained.
> 
> Under FBSD-5.1/-5.2, the multiple-tabbed terminal windows are resized to
> a different size after Gnome is restarted (and the current session state
> is saved upon exit)?!? I DO use, however, a specific geometry setting in
> the Terminal properties Command (--geometry=90x23) which works as I want
> it to when I click on the Terminal icon.
> 
> I use Sawfish in place of Metacity in all of my FreeBSD Gnome
> environments, but the "problem" ONLY occurs under FreeBSD-5.x. I have
> compared Sawfish saved session files for FreeBSD-5.x and FreeBSD-4.x,
> and they have the same syntax and structure, though specific coordinates
> for terminal windows/subwindows might be different. The "problem" is
> that the new Gnome session chooses a window geometry other than what I
> specified, but this ONLY happens for multiple-tabbed terminal windows.
> 
> One thing that I HAVE noticed is that whenever I exit from Gnome under
> FreeBSD-4 that there is a brief screen flash with the last
> configured/placed terminal windows showing up where they would be if
> there were maxmized, even though they were minimized when I shut down
> Gnome. This does NOT happen with Gnome under FreeBSD-5.x. It almost
> seems that "Gnome" is verifying the size and placement of the terminal
> windows, but I suppose that this could also just be a meaningless
> artifact of the Gnome termination process, even though it ONLY happens,
> for me, under FBSD-4.
> 
> FWIW, "Gnome" is the same version, or at least the same major version,
> in both FBSD-5 and FBSD-4, and I have seen this since FreeBSD-4.7 and
> 5.0.
> 
> No amount of configuration changes, upgrading, or reinstalling of user
> files or applications has affected the results noted above, but for me -
> it does appear to be FBSD version specific and not Gnome/sawfish
> specific.

This most likely has to do with the fact that libgmp4 is used in
-CURRENT, and the system libgmp3 is used on -STABLE.  You might want to
try rebuilding sawfish with the libgmp-freebsd port to see if it makes a
difference.  Note, this is not a permanent solution as 64-bit platforms
don't like libgmp-freebsd.  You may also want to poke around sawfish
CVS, and see if something like this has already been addressed.

Joe

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