Unreachable window

Bug #187909 reported by dNk
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

I used the Live CD, normal version for PC of the Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 7.10 - Gutsy Gibbon

GNOME Desktop
Version: 2.2.0
Distributor: Ubuntu
Build Date: 2007-09-17

Linux version 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-14.46-generic)

I set the window to be "Always on Visible Workspace"; after that I was able to "Move to Another Workspace" i.e. "Desk 2" ("Move to Workspace Right" disappeared, but this one not). Then I could see the window in the small preview, when I was on the Desk 1 workspace; but when I changed to the Desk 2 workspace the window disappeared from the preview and I couldn't see on the desktop or task bar either. It probably changed to the 3rd, not-existing workspace. When I changed back to the Desk 1 workspace, I could see again on the preview. But it happened with only this specific window.
I tried it with another window, and the same happened. My guess is, I shouldn't be able to move a window to another workspace if that is always on the visible workspace.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 1 00:26:00 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.20.0.1-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/ubuntu
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-bug
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dNk (jay4ay) wrote :
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dNk (jay4ay) wrote :
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dNk (jay4ay) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. Your description is confusing though, could you describe easy steps to trigger the bug, what happens and what else you woult expect?

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assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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dNk (jay4ay) wrote :

Sorry for my inprecision, I'll try to explain it better:

When I right to a window's title a menu will appear.
In the middle section of the menu, there is a possible 6 elements:
  - Always on Top
  - Alway on Vibible Workspace
  * Only on This Workspace (this one is selected by default)
  - Move to Workspace Left
  - Move to Workspace Right
  - Move to Another Workspace -> a submenu contains the available workspaces

To trigger the bug, do these steps:
  1. Right click on the window's title and select the Always on Visible Workspace menu item
    Now the middle section of the menu will consist only these 4 items:
    - Always on Top
    * Alway on Vibible Workspace (this one is selected)
    - Only on This Workspace
    - Move to Another Workspace -> a submenu contains the available workspaces

    [Note that, the "Move to Workspace Left" and the "Move to Workspace Right" menu items have been disappeared, but the generic version "Move to Another Workspace" didn't.]

  2. Move the window to another workspace by right clicking the menu title, and selecting the "Move to Another Workspace" submenu, and here select an other workspace. (For example: Right Click -> Move to Another Workspace -> Workspace 2)

Now you have triggered the bug: the window is in a state where it is always on an unvisible workspace. You can see it's preview on Workspace Chooser panel-element (usually at the bottom right corner), but if you change Workspace the window will change Workspace as well (to an other one). It is even possible, to move the window to an unexistent (ie: 0. or 5.) workspace too. In this case you can't see its preview on any of the workspace's preview.

In general what the window does is: it keeps the distance between the visible workspace. Thus if you move it from the visible workspace by 2. It will keep this distance when you change the workspace, for example:

Visible Workspace Window
1. 3.
2. 4.
3. 5. (possibly not exists)

Other example: Your are on the 2. workspace, at you have moved the window to the first workspace:
Visible Workspace Window
2. 1.
1. 0. (not exists)
3. 2.

In the previous Screenshot1 you can see the unreachable window's outline on the Right Workspace, and Screenshot2 shows, when you simply change to the Right Workspace (nothing else happened, just simple workspace changing) the window which's outline was previously whown certeinly disapperad from the Wrokspace Chooser panel-element and you can't see even the window on the screen.

The same error occurs on the installed version of the Ubuntu as well.

I hope, I explained it better now.

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Invalid → New
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dNk (jay4ay) wrote :

Hmm, those examples should look like this:

Visible Workspace | Unreachable Window
1. | 3.
2. | 4.
3. | 5. (possibly not exists)

Other example: Your are on the 2. workspace, at you have moved the window to the first workspace:
Visible Workspace | Unreachable Window
2. | 1.
1. | 0. (not exists)
3. | 2.

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dNk (jay4ay) wrote :

What happens: creates a window that I cannot reach, thus close, modify or anything else.

What would I expect: the disappearance of the "Move to Another Workspace" menu item, when the window is on an "Always on Visible Workspace" state. Like the disappearence of the "Move to Workspace Left" and "Move to Workspace Right" menu items.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could you try if that's still an issue in hardy or intrepid?

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status: New → Incomplete
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dNk (jay4ay) wrote :

it's already fixed in hardy

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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