I work with someone who's been trying to set up workspace names in the Gnome panel in RH8. By default these are ``Workspace 1'', ``... 2'', etc. which aren't terribly descriptive for how the user wants to arrange windows. By right clicking and going into the workspace switcher properties, you are lead to believe that you can redefine these workspace names. And you can... but only for the duration of the current session. Exiting the desktop and restarting it results in the default names being used. (Saving the current setup before exiting doesn't help.)

Any suggestions as to whether making these changes survive logging out and back in is possible?

TIA,
Rick

Ha ha :P
Seriously though, in Mdk9.0 with KDE, renaming desktops works fine...another bug with RedHat?!

Well, I'm hoping it's just some strange permissions problem. (But on what file?)

When you log out, try checking the "Save current settings" box.

I have done that and it does seem to save those particular settings. (See original post.)