Launcher icons bring application windows in current workspace
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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compiz (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I use the default 2x2 workspaces, having setup through CCSM (Place Windows / Fixed Window Placement / Windows with fixed viewport) some application windows to always open in specific workspaces. The application windows indeed open in the respective workspaces with no problem.
After some software update (I can't pinpoint the exact one) I have noticed that some times (not always) clicking on the icon in the launcher of an application with a window in another workspace (not the one I'm currently viewing) brings that window in my current workspace, instead of switching me to the workspace the window is in. Furthermore, the window is displayed in a seemingly arbitrary position, with some parts of it outside the screen.
This problem is perhaps not critical, but annoying at least, as my intended action is to quickly check a window in another workspace then return to my current one, without "polluting" it with unrelated windows. It is a shame this doesn't work correctly, as the launcher makes such a workflow so easy, needing just two clicks on adjacent icons.
Ubuntu 12.04 with latest updates.
Unity 5.12-0ubuntu1.1
Compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6+12ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
.proc.driver.
.proc.driver.
.proc.driver.
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 295.40 Thu Apr 5 21:37:00 PDT 2012
GCC version: gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
.tmp.unity.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Mon Jul 2 13:11:42 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
nvidia-current, 295.40, 3.2.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 295.40, 3.2.0-25-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 295.40, 3.2.0-26-generic, x86_64: installed
virtualbox, 4.1.12, 3.2.0-25-generic, x86_64: installed
virtualbox, 4.1.12, 3.2.0-26-generic, x86_64: installed
DpkgLog:
ExtraDebuggingI
GraphicsCard:
NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M] [10de:0a6c] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Latitude E6510 [1028:040b]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
JockeyStatus:
xorg:nvidia_
xorg:nvidia_
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6510
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/26/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A09
dmi.board.name: 0N5KHN
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6510
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
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I have exactly the same problem after upgrading from 11.10 to 12.04 this morning.
However sometimes the application isn't moved to the current workspace but to a different one (not where it previously was). The new position often has the apps left edge under the launcher which is awkward if you don't use auto hide.