on the plus side as a side-effect, we just realized something important
firefox does try to save and restore what virtual desktop a window is on. it's just that our window manager makes empty virtual desktops go away (they come back as soon as they're addressed by name or number), and firefox can't restore into a desktop that it thinks doesn't exist.
we do enjoy the ritual of tracing over every browser window every time we reboot and remembering where we put it, we probably wouldn't be nearly as good at closing things we no longer care about without that
but it's still kinda tedious. mm mm. the paradox of automation
update: that did work
that wasn't even what we were trying to work on, but this changes everything
@ireneista I care very much about the position of my Firefox windows, so ages ago (on X¹) I wrote something extract their position from my window manager, save it, and then restore everything on demand.
¹ I don't know if you can do this on Wayland, or through extracting information from Firefox itself. My hack covers both the normal window position and the iconified position, because I care about both and my window manager has actual iconification to the root window.
@ireneista Yeah, I manually trigger my 'fix the positions' stuff after Firefox has started, and sometimes things go off because eg some web page has failed to reload.
(And sometimes there are duplicate window titles due to aggregator sites.)
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Chris Siebenmann