Having two open Workspace Switchers with 8 desktops and two rows fails to display two rows on one of them

Bug #139676 reported by Patrick Stetter
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

In Workspace Switcher 2.19.92 (in a fully updated gibbon install) I have dual monitors and as such wish to have two instances of Workspace switcher open on two different panels in gnome (one for each monitor). I have 8 desktops and wish to put them in two rows. When I do this, only one of the workspace switchers displays in two rows, each with 4 desktops, and the other is one row of 8.

I'm using the nvidia display drivers with metacity on a thinkpad t61 if that matters.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. Could you make a screenshot of the bug? Do you use the desktop effects option?

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importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Patrick Stetter (chipmaster32) wrote :

For some reason the second screen isn't being shown in my screenshots, so I moved the workspace switchers to the same screen. Notice how both dialogs say 2 rows, yet only one of the workspace switchers actually is.

I don't use desktop effects.

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Patrick Stetter (chipmaster32) wrote :

Woops. Ignore that first screenshot.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Likely an upstream bug, might be a duplicate. To confirm and send on bugzilla by somebody with a dual screen configuration

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status: Incomplete → New
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Dragonmaster Lou (lou-techhouse) wrote :

I've noticed that removing the second switcher from the panel, then putting it back and changing the settings makes it work. An annoying work-around, but it might lend some insight to the root cause of the problem.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could you try if that's still an issue in hardy?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

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zurgutt (zurgutt) wrote :

The bug exists in Hardy and the workaround from previous versions (delete and re-add workspace switcher on secondary screen) does not work anymore.

I have dual screen setup with separate X server for each screen, nvidia card, not twinview.

What happens: after setting screen 1 to 3x2 workspaces by rightclicking on switcher and choosing 3 columns and 2 rows, the switcher on screen 1 is displayed correctly and works correctly, even after X restart.

The switcher on screen 2 works correctly (switches workspaces on screen 2), but number of workspaces cannot be changed - if preferences menu is brought up by rightclick, it will show AND change preferences of screen 1 instead.

I am guessing there is bug in applets configuration handling that does not take in account screen. It used to work in some past distributions though. I have tried to find the configuration setting/file to fix it manually but failed so far, can you tell how to do it?

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