gnome-keybinding-properties doesn't offer to set "Switch to desktop n" with n>=3

[Pierre-François Giraud]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

- right-click on the workspace selector, properties
- set 4 columns, and 1 line, close
- go in the gnome-key-binding-properties
- you can set key binding for "switch to workspace 1" or "2", but not "3" and "4"

This is a fresh install of gutsy. The option used to be available in previous versions of ubuntu.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Do you still have the issue? Could you try using an another user on the same configuration?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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!.

[Mekk (marcin-kasperski)]

I also faced this bug, and can offer detailed diagnostics. Tested on Hedgy Heron, on newly created gnome desktop. This is a bug somewhere between gnome-keybinding-properties and desktop switcher.

To reproduce: enable advanced desktop effect (= switch to compiz) while having default two desktops. Then (while having compiz running) right click desktop switcher and increase desktop count (in my case I extended columns to 4 while keeping rows at 1).

Then start gnome-keybinding-properties. You will see that you are not offered a chance to setup shortcuts to jump to dekstops 3 and 4 in spite of the fact they exist and work.

Behind the courtain you can see in gnome-conf-editor that Apps > Metacity > general > num_workspaces is still 2, manually switching it to 4 resolves the issue. And, in fact, it may be natural. I am not running metacity at all, so why should its settings be updated (one can find that Apps > Compiz > general.screen0.options.hsize = 4)

IMO this is a bug in gnome-keybinding-properties - one can not assume that Metacity.general.num_workspaces shows the number of workspaces anymore. My suggestion: just throw this logic away, make it possible to setup keys for desktops 1, 2, 3, ... 10 or so. While you could try to handle compiz too, you will soon face multihead monitors, or maybe yet another window manager, or ....

Note: I am not the first who faced this bug, in fact somebody described it when I complained on ubuntu users that I can't setup keys for switch to desktop 3/4

[Mekk (marcin-kasperski)]

Here is the discussion which I referred to:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/149283

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's because GNOME uses workspace where compiz uses viewports, there is several bugs already open about the non ideal viewports integration in GNOME, closing this one

[Mekk (marcin-kasperski)]

If this problem is conducted in another bug, please give this bug number. Searching for desktop switch problems finds this one and it would be nice if people who find it were able to track the problem.

Also, I simply disagree with label "Invalid". This bug is valid, reproducible, troublesome and not fixed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

don't try to overule the changes that's not constructive, this bug is a duplicate, looking for exact numbers take some time though and doing that for hundred duplicates every week would cost a lot of efforts which are better used to fix issues, you can search for the number yourself though