Ubuntu
compiz package

Number of desktops not initialised correctly

Bug #116806 reported by Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
10
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
compiz (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned
Nominated for Gutsy by Anthony S

Bug Description

Binary package hint: compiz

Switched from metacity to compiz using the Enable Desktop Effects button; no previous compiz gconf keys existed.

In metacity, I had 12 desktops configured in three rows.

This setting was not migrated to compiz, where I had 2 desktops in 3 rows.

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

(High: composite-by-default blocked)

Changed in compiz:
importance: Undecided → High
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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

(after discussion, upgrading all composite-by-default problems to Critical, since these must be closed for gutsy)

Changed in compiz:
importance: High → Critical
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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

This bug may need some clarification

I'm told that metacity had 12 workspaces configured in 3 rows.

And I'm told that for compiz, this should be migrated to 1 desktop with an hsize of 4 and vsize of 3; giving me 1 workspace with 12 viewports in the arrangement I had configured.

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Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This may be linked to bug #102309 which already has a bunch of duplicates.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

There is some work on this here:

 http://gitweb.opencompositing.org/?p=fusion/compizconfig/compizconfig-backend-gconf;a=commit;h=b6571fea49f7996487fdfb4eb4c2c40c5776be7b

but it currently has unwanted side-effects, this needs to be investigated further (plus the location of the num_rows gconf key is currently not stable).

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Dave roi (daveroi) wrote :

I'm having a similar problem as well.

Dave roi (daveroi)
Changed in compiz:
status: New → Confirmed
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

This is fixed now with the latest gnome-control-center appearance capplet. When you switch with it, it will init the number of desktops and the layout correctly (unless there is a bug in that code :)

Changed in compiz:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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