On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 16:07:08 -0400 H wrote:
On another note, the version that is available for C7, Mate 1.16.2, does not save all sessions when it crashes, nor does it save positions or session order arrangement on the bar. This means that every time the computer is restarted you have to spend time arranging your desktop working environment... I have not found any utility to do this for me either.
I use Mate, currently on C8 but previously on C7 and I've never had this problem.
I just have a single panel bar at the bottom (like Gnome version 1) and arrange it to suit me and it stays the way I want it between sessions. Every time I log in I see the same panel bar that I saw the last time I logged in.
Is this the problem you're having? If so you might want to use dconf-editor to lock the panel bar and see if that solves it.