"Move To Another Workspace:" moves to Desk 3 in Desk 2 when selectin Desk 1 in Compiz

[Brett Alton]

In Gutsy, fulled updated to 2008-01-21, using the "Move To Another Workspace", the window gets moved to an incorrect 'desk' or workspace. This only occurs when using Compiz, or "Appearance: Minimal/Standard/Custom"

Example:

User/window currently in Desk 2
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| | x | | |
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Select "Move to Another Workspace: Desk 1"

User/window now in Desk 3 (incorrect)
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| | | x | |
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Select "Move to Another Workspace: Desk 1"

User/window now in Desk 1 (correct)
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| x | | | |
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I will post a screencast if necessary.

[Brett Alton (brett-alton-deactivatedaccount)]

I apologize; I forgot that HTML can't read whitespace... I don't know how to force space without using   so pretend each of those vertical bars represents the beginning and ending of a workspace/desk. There should be 4 in total.

[Parthan SR (parth-technofreak)]

I can reproduce this bug in Gutsy, updated to the latest. I

 am currently having the browser window in Desk 2. When i right click on the window title, select "Move to Another Workspace" >> Desk 3, instead of moving to Desk 3 it moves it to Desk 5, which is 3 Desks away from my current one.

To reconfirm, I opened up a Terminal window in Desk 4, tried moving it to Desk 2, which moved it to Desk 1 again 2 Desks away from current one.

Hence the behavior is selecting "Move to Nth Desk" actually moves it to N Desks away from current one in a loop. I have modified the compiz effects to have cube effects rather than sliding.

[antonioni (antonioni-rocha)]

This problem happens here too. The workspaces don't work fine =/

[Andreas Bauer (bauer-andi)]

I can reproduce this and observed more strange behaviour: When a window is on my Desk 4, moving it to any other Desk with "Move to Another Workspace" will make it end up on the left edge of Desk 1.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libwnck - 2.21.92-0ubuntu2

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libwnck (2.21.92-0ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/03_unstick_window_before_moving.patch:
    - before moving a window make sure it isn't sticky (LP: #199032)
  * debian/patches/04_make_left_and_up_moves_work.patch
    - subtract position instead of adding to make left/up work (LP: #184998)
  * debian/patches/05_make_set_geometry_understand_decorations.patch:
    - include decoration sizes in calculations, from SVN

 -- Travis Watkins <email address hidden> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:32:37 -0600

[Tom Womack (tom-womack)]

Is there a plan to back-port this to gutsy?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

It's on the edge of what we'd normally allow, but from the description this seems very confusing for users and possibly worth the risk of an update. Sebastien, what do you think?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

nobody opened a bug about that for months and that's a small issue, users can use dnd in the workspace switcher and move to next workspaces, I don't think it qualify for a stable backport now