Cannot turn off Sticky Edges in Displays

[Britt Yazel]

In Displays within Switchboard, disabling 'Sticky Edges' does not work. Whenever the option is toggled off, it looks as if it has changed, but if you go back into the setting it is set back to enabled.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: elementary-desktop 1.287-0~361~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15+elementary3~precise1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
Date: Mon Dec 10 09:02:57 2012
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Beta 1 amd64 (20121114)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Marking Switchboard affected, just in case it's compatibility layer's fault.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what desktop environment do you use? that option changes launcher-capture-mouse in the unity's compiz configuration

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Oh, no wonder it doesn't work in Pantheon then - it uses Gala instead of Compiz.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

So perhaps the proper fix would be showing the option only if XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP environment variable is "unity" or if Compiz is running, if the option is not specific to Unity.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> the proper fix would be showing the option only if XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP environment variable is "unity

it does, try running "XDG_CURRENT_DESTKOP= gnome-control-center display", that setting is not displayed

[Britt Yazel (bwyazel)]

Sorry I did not state it earlier. This is Elementary OS running the Pantheon environment. Originally this ticket was assigned to Elementary OS, my appologies.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not a gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) issue

[Jaap Broekhuizen (jaapz-b)]

> it does, try running "XDG_CURRENT_DESTKOP= gnome-control-center display", that setting is not displayed

When i echo XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP in my terminal it returns Pantheon. Still the setting is displayed for me...

> jaapz@ieniemienie:~$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
> Pantheon

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> When i echo XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP in my terminal it returns Pantheon. Still the setting is displayed for me...

that's an elementary change then, under Ubuntu running "XDG_CURRENT_DESTKOP=Pantheon gnome-control-center display" returns 3 icons only and the display panel is not listed

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

The display panel has "OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity" in its .desktop file. Perhaps not showing the panel at all doesn't count as a bug.