[CentOS] Saving Workspace State

Is there a way to save the position and workspace locations of at least terminals on logout?

I want to have many workspaces with 2-3 terminals each for editing code and scripts and ssh and so on.

The System > Preferences > Startup Applications > Options > Automatically remember running applications when logged out doesn't work. And gnome-session-save doesn't work either.

I used to use Fedora 14 and it saved the session state fine. But now I cannot recall how to do it. I know GNOME 3 removed that code (the GNOME developers now believe that the applications should remember their own state) but I was hoping CentOS still has this capability.

Is it possible to save GNOME desktop session state in CentOS 6?

Mike