During screen lock windows get moved to other workspaces

[John Johansen]

Sometimes my windows are moved to different workspaces after unlocking the screen. Eg. This time all the windows that where in workspace 1 where moved to workspace 6, and workspace 5's windows where moved to workspace 1.

This is somewhat similar to the behavior seen after compiz crashes and windows get moved around, however it is different in that unlike the compiz crash most if not all windows stay properly grouped to on a desktop, its just the which desktop has changed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.8.2-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.12-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 634e340822dbba19cfc2dc121e877bff
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,imgpng,unitymtgrabhandles,move,wall,grid,snap,gnomecompat,resize,session,animation,workarounds,expo,fade,scale,ezoom,switcher,unityshell]
Date: Tue Aug 23 12:52:57 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-06 (47 days ago)

[John Johansen (jjohansen)]

Well its not just during/at screen lock. The desktops just switched back, and windows are mostly where they are supposed to be after the earlier switch. I verified not just with the key binding (I have each desktop bound to a specific key but also the work place switch in the launcher).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marcin Juszkiewicz (hrw)]

Nice suggestion from #ubuntu-desktop: check did compiz restarted in meantime. In my case it did. But moving windows is a bug anyway.

[Astralstorm (astralstorm)]

Still not fixed after a year, affects 12.04 and 12.10 at least. Please increase the importance of this bug - it's easy to reproduce if you have more than one monitor and highly annoying.
"Dogfood" class if you will.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

John,

Could you please check the process ID of compiz before and after locking the screen? You can just run:
    pidof compiz
to find it.

If the process ID has changed then compiz is crashing and we can't ensure windows stay in their original positions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Compiz because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for compiz (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]