Ubuntu
gnome-shell package

gnome-shell doesn't remember how many workspaces you have

Bug #657545 reported by Delan Azabani on 2010-10-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1067933: Reloading shell with Alt-F2 r loses all workspaces but first 2. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GNOME Shell	Expired	Medium	gnome-bugs #602182
	gnome-shell (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

gnome-shell doesn't retain the number of workspaces the user has set. This may be intentional, but if it is, it's a pretty bad idea in my opinion. Very easy test case:

1. add a workspace
2. `gnome-shell --replace`
3. observe that there's only one workspace now

Revision history for this message

Delan Azabani (azabani) wrote on 2010-10-10:

Now reported upstream at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631801

affects:

ubuntu → gnome-shell (Ubuntu)

Revision history for this message

Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2010-10-10:

Updating to new upstream bug

Revision history for this message

Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2010-10-10:

Marking this Triaged as we have an upstream bug.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-10-10

Changed in gnome-shell:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-06-29

Changed in gnome-shell:
status:	New → Expired

Revision history for this message

Anders Kaseorg (andersk) wrote on 2011-07-14:

gnome-shell correctly remembers the number of workspaces if I restart it with Alt+F2 ‘r’, but not with ‘gnome-shell --replace’.

Revision history for this message

Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote on 2012-11-08:

The test case works for me with gnome-shell 3.6.1 on Ubuntu 12.10. There is a mutter 3.7.1 commit we could try to backport to Ubuntu 12.10 if 3.6 isn't working quite right.

http://git.gnome.org/browse/mutter/commit/?id=2717a0