Ubuntu
desktop-effects package

Change number of Metacity's workspaces when enabling compiz cube through desktop-effects

Bug #94871 reported by Luca Ferretti on 2007-03-22

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #89786: Desktop-effect does not enable cube. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	desktop-effects (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: desktop-effects

On out-of-the-box configuration the number of Metacity's workspaces (managed in /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces GConf key) is 2.

Enabling Compiz cube in desktop-effects preferences tool, this key stay unchanged, so you have 2 workspaces and a cube for each workspace. You can see it using the Workspace Switcher in the bottom panel.

But, setting the /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces GConf key to 1, the Workspace Switcher will show only the available faces of the Compiz cube.

I suggest to set the /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces key to 1 when the user select the cube option, so he can also use the Workspace Switcher to change cube face and it's more simple to understand then current layout

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 22 20:06:10 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux redrum 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 20:55:46 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Luca Ferretti (elle.uca) wrote on 2007-03-22:

Doh! It seems I was using compiz GConf keys from my custom installation.

I cleaned my keys (gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /app/compiz) and now it seem that checking the cube option on desktop-effects the number of workspaces in Switcher applet is increased to 4, but there is no cube effect :-(

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Luca Ferretti (elle.uca) wrote on 2007-03-22:

It seems that the solution was yet in bug #89786...

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Prizrak (slavachem) wrote on 2007-04-04:

A similar bug occurs here. Whenever I click on desktop-effects the number of workspaces is reset to 1 and hsize as well. It occurs whether the effects are enabled or disabled.