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

** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Remember+restore window position of applications with WM_WINDOW_ROLE
  or window title set

Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Won't Fix
Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Open firefox or thunderbird.  Move the window.  Quit the application.  Open the application again.  The window is back over on the left again.
  The mozilla team leaves window positioning to the window manager on unix/linux systems:
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31086

  The advanced settings to enable Gnome to remember window positions is not available at the place these instructions say they were a year ago:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-36505.html%3C/t-199815.html

  A similar ubuntu bug was reported earlier, but it was about firefox only, and it is already marked as having been fixed in Feb., however, I am seeing the issue today using Feisty, which was released in April:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/65841

  One possible workaround is using Devil's Pie: http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie
  which requires hand editing xml files and creating pattern matching filter rules.

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