Comment 26 for bug 996604

Thanks Marco, you've restored my faith in humanity.
Charlie
On Jun 29, 2012 6:15 PM, "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <mail@3v1n0.net> wrote:

> If you're enough "brave" to use the unity/SRU ppa [1] you can get this
> in few hours, otherwise you need to wait the official package from
> archives.
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~unity-team/+archive/sru
>
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> Title:
> When number of workspaces is set to 1, the Spread no longer works
>
> Status in Compiz Core:
> Triaged
> Status in Unity:
> Fix Committed
> Status in unity 5.0 series:
> Fix Committed
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Committed
> Status in “unity” source package in Precise:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> What it says in the title.
>
> I dislike multiple desktops, and also dislike the Workspace Switcher
> taking up a tile in my launcher. Even if I used multiple workspaces,
> I still wouldn't want the tile in my launcher.
>
> So I've used MyUnity to change the number of workspaces to 1. Up
> until Unity 5.12, this took care of both of my problems.
>
> Now, with Unity 5.12, doing this also disables the spread function.
> If I click the launcher tile for an application that has multiple
> windows, absolutely nothing happens. This makes it cumbersome to
> manage an app that has many windows open.
>
> Please revert whatever change disables spread on a single-workspace
> configuration. Alternately, please allow some way to remove the
> Workspace Switcher tile from the Launcher (that's a bigger problem to
> me than actually having workspaces I do not use).
>
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>
> 3v1n0:
> The bug happens in Compiz due to the fact that window->defaultViewport()
> does not always return an invalid value when there are offscreen windows.
> For example this bug seems caused by "gtk-window-decorator" windows like
> this one: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/1066811/ that according to compiz
> are in the same workspace of the window we're trying to focus, even if
> they're actually outside it.
> The bug doesn't seem to happen all the times here, but it happens always
> to many other users.
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