gnome-shell: virtual desktops broken as windows appear on every desktop, regardless of where they are placed

[Matthew Ruffell]

gnome-shell: virtual desktops broken as windows appear on every desktop, regardless of where they are placed

On focal, with gnome-shell 3.36.0-2ubuntu1 and 3.36.0-2ubuntu2, if you open a few applications, such as gnome-disks, nautilus and firefox, then move a window to a different virtual desktop, and switch to it, all windows are found to be on the virtual desktop. No matter what you do, all windows will be present, breaking virtual desktops.

Attached is a screencast demonstrating the bug.

[Matthew Ruffell (mruffell)]

Attached is a screencast demonstrating the problem.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I believe this was fixed yesterday in 3.36.0-2ubuntu2.

To confirm if this is a different problem please:

1. Run this command to automatically attach system info:

   apport-collect 1869974

2. Run this command:

   dpkg -l > packages.txt

   and attach the file 'packages.txt' to this bug.

Also please remember to log out/in again since yesterday's update :)

[Matthew Ruffell (mruffell)]

Oops, sorry. I rebooted my machine and the problem does not reproduce, since I installed 3.36.0-2ubuntu2 and hadn't rebooted.