Glitch changing workspaces in Expo mode

[Matthew Pirocchi]

I have trouble changing workspaces in Expo mode when my system is being taxed.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Tax your system's resources (play some music, a video, etc.)
2. Enter Expo mode
3. Right click on a workspace other than the currently active one, to change to it

What should happen:
Your desktop should change to the workspace you selected

What actually happens:
Your desktop appears to zoom into the correct workspace, but remains on the active workspace.

Note: If you first left click on the workspace, and wait a second for it to become selected, this workspace will be selected on right click.

As far as I can tell, this is what is happening:
When you right click on a work space, compiz does this:
1. Change the selected workspace to the one you clicked;
2. Leave expo mode, entering the selected work space.

However, when your system is under some strain (on my relatively weak system, this can be as little as listening to music and browsing the web at the same time), there is delay before the clicked workspace becomes selected. Thus, compiz moves on to step 2 before the selected workspace is actually changed.
Does this make sense?

I use compiz 1.0.8.2-0ubuntu8.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty with the "Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller" (integrated Intel graphics).

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. Unfortunately a paper cut should be a small usability issue that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. I'm afraid this bug can't be addressed as part of this project.

Unable to reproduce this error in Karmic, When i select the workspace [while playing videos] the correct workspace *is* selected.
Either this bug is fixed in Karmic or a bug in the compiz or a bug specific to the install . Hence not a papercut.

A paper cut is a minor usability annoyance that an average user would encounter on his/her first day of using a new installation of Ubuntu 9.10.

For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

Thanks Matthew! However a forum post is not the same as filing a bug upstream. Please file your bug in their actual tracker at http://bugs.opencompositing.org/ which will get it the proper attention and then give us a link here and the bug can be better triaged. Thanks!

[Matthew Pirocchi (matthew-pirocchi)]

Here is the upstream bug: http://bugs.opencompositing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1196

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

Thanks for sending it upstream Matthew!

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/. Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Matthew Pirocchi (matthew-pirocchi)]

Unable to reproduce in Karmic Alpha 6 live USB. I'll test again when I do a full install of the final release.

[Matthew Pirocchi (matthew-pirocchi)]

This appears to be fixed in Karmic (I've seen it once or twice, but rarely, and was not able to reproduce).

[Gaëtan Priour (priour-gaetan)]

Hi, I'm using Ubuntu Lucid beta 1 with Compiz Version: 1:0.8.4-0ubuntu13 and this problem is still occuring quite often, especially on quick changes.