Is there a way to force Eclipse to open in the default perspective?

Question

Problem:

Whenever I start Eclipse (3.5.2 Galileo) it always opens in the previous perspective I was using. I want it to ALWAYS open in the default perspective, but

Answer 1

There is no setting in the preferences dialog to do that. However, as a hack you can find the last perspective attribute stored in the file: workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/workbench.xml. It's an XML file, and the attribute you want to freeze is: .

You can use a simple script to alter that setting before running Eclipse.