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Auto-hide the Launcher and Enable Workspaces options don't work when accessing Settings via desktop right-click

Bug #1631978 reported by Ads20000
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Xenial
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

When right-clicking on the desktop to change the wallpaper, going to the Behavior tab and trying the Auto-hide the Launcher and Enable Workspaces options, the options don't have the intended effects. The Auto-hide launcher slider slides, but doesn't hide the launcher, and the workspaces aren't enabled as they should be.

This is on the Ubuntu 16.10 (20161008) live session, I don't know if it happens when Ubuntu 16.10 is installed (might try it later). This bug is not reproducible in Ubuntu 16.04.

Computer info:
VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 5.0.24_Ubuntu r108355
(I don't have access to spare hardware to test on at the moment)
Allocated 2GB RAM
Host OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit
Lenovo ThinkPad X201

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: unity-control-center 15.04.0+16.10.20161003.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-21.23-generic 4.8.0
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.379
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Oct 10 14:27:30 2016
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20161008)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Ads20000 (ads20000) wrote :
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1631978

tags: added: iso-testing
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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

True, good find

I think it's like this

 - For the switches to work, unity-control-center needs to be started with the right COMPIZ_CONFIG_PROFILE (same as Unity) - in a VM, this will normally be "ubuntu-lowgfx"
 - nautilus, which is launching unity-control-center here has COMPIZ_CONFIG_PROFILE="ubuntu" (the default from /etc/X11/Xsession.d/65compiz-profile-on-session
 - Because gnome-session has the same value, and gnome-session launches nautilus
 - And gnome-session doesn't get the value from Unity because it starts up before Unity does, and Unity's systemd (or upstart - this is also broken on 16.04's current dailies) jobs are where the profile is decided

I guess that the COMPIZ_CONFIG_PROFILE calculation needs to be moved earlier in the session startup.

Changed in unity-control-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
affects: unity-control-center (Ubuntu) → unity (Ubuntu)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) → nobody
assignee: nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → Fix Released
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