[#50] restoring all windows on corresponding workspaces

i don't like feature requests, and lagrange already maybe has way more features than i need.

but would like to ask for one very essential feature, since i am trying now to use it as my main browser, instead of firefox.

lagrange remembers only one window when getting closed or killed.

i need it to remember all windows and tabs, and also, very important, to remember which workspace it was located on.

firefox does that, chromium cannot do that.

when lagrange starts, it would be great if it restored all opened windows and tabs, and located those on the same workspaces as before.

thank you.

🐞 Issue #50 in s/Lagrange-Issues

🐙 norayr

2023-08-30 · 9 months ago

7 Comments ↓

🕹️ skyjake [mod...] · 2023-08-30 at 16:13:

Lagrange does save the state and position of every open window, and attempts to reopen them in the coordinates they had before. However, SDL has some platform and windowing system dependent issues with this.

May I ask what is your desktop environment setup (and OS)?

🐙 norayr [OP] · 2023-09-01 at 08:14:

yes, i use windowmaker. just a simple window manager. os is gentoo, but probably what is relevant is that windowmaker is an x window manager.

🐙 norayr [OP] · 2023-11-18 at 00:00:

did you have time to try lagrange in windowmaker?

🕹️ skyjake [mod...] · 2023-11-18 at 09:38:

No, haven't managed to try this yet...

🐙 norayr [OP] · 2023-11-20 at 10:52:

so i tried again, i guess with more updated version of lagrange now?

and this works:

if i do file -> quit, and if i just use xkill to kill the window, and then restart lagrange - both windows appear.

what doesn't work:

🐙 norayr [OP] · 2023-11-20 at 10:54:

oh, accidentally pressed 'enter'.

what doesn't work:

if the windows were on different workspaces at the time lagrange closed, they still get restored in the same workspace i run lagrange in.

🐙 norayr [OP] · 2023-11-20 at 10:57:

and this is already very good.

for long time firefox was not able to remember which workspace which window were, but was starting all the windows in one workspace.

so what is very important, today i don't loose opened tabs in one of the windows if i close lagrange.

so this is already very good.

🐞 Mentioned in [#79] WindowMaker: Hangs with multiple windows in workspaces

May 16 · 4 weeks ago