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gnome-session package

workspace switching broken in 12.04 gnome classic

Asked by Jure Sah on 2012-05-30

Hello,

I have been trying to fix this and it is driving me crazy, because nothing I do seems to have much effect on anything.

I have Ubuntu 12.04, recently upgraded stepwise from 11.04, am using compiz and gnome classic.

Workspace switching seems to be behaving very oddly:
1. No matter what I do, writing settings manaully included, the configuration window for the workspace switcher will always show number of workspaces as "1" after I relog or reboot. Note that writing the settings manually does affect how many workspaces are in fact accessible.
2. The "send to workspace" functionality in right click simply does not work
3. If I have windows on 3 or more workspaces they will eventually magically all be jumbled into workspace 1 while switching workspaces

#1 is a technicality, #2 is annoying and #3 is driving me nuts.

I figure this is either a bug I wouldn't know where to begin to report or a messup with my old settings from the upgrade. If the latter please tell me what to delete to reset my settings to normal.

Any help appreciated, though I have googled the problem thorroughly and none of the things I found helped...

LP,
Jure

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2012-05-30
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2012-05-30
actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #1

If you use Unity2D session, or install xfce4 and log in to the XFCE session, is it ok?

Sam_ (and-sam) said : #2

Maybe try:
compiz --replace

Reset profiles.
Switch to virtual console (text mode only): ctrl+alt+f1
Login with username and pw.
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compiz-1
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/compizconfig-1
sudo reboot

Rather harsh, find compiz-1 folders and rename them, for example
mv ~/.config/compiz-1 ~/.config/compiz-1-broken

and reboot.

Michal Bojanowski (michal2992) said : #3

I'm suffering from the same problems as DustWolf. They happen both using GnomeClassic and Unity2D.

Sam_ solution did not fix the problems for me.

I really regret that I upgraded from Natty. Many things are broken...

Zoran Plesivcak (zplesivcak-deactivatedaccount) said : #4

"3. If I have windows on 3 or more workspaces they will eventually magically all be jumbled into workspace 1 while switching workspaces"

This affects me also!

Zoran Plesivcak (zplesivcak-deactivatedaccount) said : #5

Problem 3. that I've mentioned is GONE! It works as expected now. Thanks to implementers!

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