Workspace Switcher applet number of workspaces resets to 1 after logging into GNOME 3 Shell and switching back to fallback classic mode

[Bob Bib]

Ubuntu 11.10 (amd64)

I use GNOME 3 fallback "classic" mode.
I've added the Workspace Switcher applet to the bottom panel and set the number of desktops in it to 4.
The set number of workspaces in it resets to 1 after logging into GNOME 3 Shell and switching back to fallback classic mode.

[Carsten Heidmann (stranljip)]

I have the same behaviour using only Gnome Classic. After ever login the number of desktops is reset to 1. I am using 11.10 64bit.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Bob Bib (bobbib)]

I have no more Ubuntu 11.10 installed; was it running Compiz or not?..

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This has been fixed in Ubuntu 12.04 Beta.

[Jure Sah (dustwolfy)]

This has not been fixed since I am experiencing it in 12.04 not beta...

[John D. Nash (promotions)]

Confirmed. Even if I use (right click / preferences) to set the workspace swticher to 8 workspaces in 2 rows, then next time I log in it is back to 2x2 grid with 1 workspace.

Need to set it every time I log in. Since Unity came out there has been a drive to make it more cell phone like -- harder to use to get work done. There is a cute little workspace switcher in Unity, but switching workspaces requires three clicks each time and it can only accommodate 4 workspaces -- very suboptimal compared with clicking once on the Gnome panel workspace swticher.

I haven't figured out where to set the default values for the Gnome workspace switcher in compiz, and the following code (which was offered in a forum) does not solve the problem either.

gconftool --type Integer --set /apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/vsize 8
gconftool --type Integer --set /apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/hsize 8