Workspace switcher confused by switching between compiz and metacity
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libwnck (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-panel
This could be a problem in compiz, in metacity, or in the Gnome workspace switcher.
When I initially installed Gutsy, I set myself up with 4 x 2 workspaces. Then I had to turn off Compiz (effectively switching to Metacity) because of bug 133118. At that point, Metacity ended up with a fairly weird workspace geometry, but all I had to do was right-click on the workspace switcher and configure it back to 4x2 (I think by telling it 8 workspaces, 2 rows)
Now that 133118 is basically fixed, I switched back, and found myself with the opposite problem: there are "ghost" workspaces from metacity but compiz has this weird idea that there are 7 workspaces in a single row (even though the preferences have 8, I can only switch between 7 of them) and the workspace switcher displays another row underneath which I cannot switch to.
Again, opening up the preferences and reconfiguring to 4x2 fixed this; but it would be neat if it worked without these haphazard artefacts (and also if the geometry was conceptualized the same way in both window managers, i.e. either rows x columns or number of workspaces in how many rows ... I think I prefer the former, as that doesn't have corner cases like you would have with 7 in 2 rows, or 8 in 3 rows).
(Incidentally, I also have this on a different box where I use Sawfish as my preferred window manager; again, it uses a different facility for configuring the workspace and viewport geometry, which is not in sync with the Gnome workspace switcher.)
Ubuntu 7.10, all of -proposed -securty -backports enabled
| AC (alex-coady) wrote | #2 |
| Christoffer Gurell (orbit-0x63) wrote | #3 |
| Anthony S (aaaantoine) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in gnome-panel: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in gnome-panel: | |
| assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Actually, that was not sufficient; I still had a ghost row underneath the proper workspaces in Compiz. Briefly switching to Metacity, by disabling desktop effects in Appearance > Visual Effects and changing the workspace switchers prefs in Metacity to display all workspaces in one row got rid of it when I enabled desktop effects (i.e. Compiz) again.