Open program in the same workspace that it's initiated

[Dan Wolff]

Using Ubuntu 8.10.

Reproduce/what happens:
1. open a program in workspace X (by whatever means - double clicking a file, choosing from the menu, panels...)
2. switch to workspace Y while the program is loading
3. the program opens in the active/showing workspace, workspace Y

I expect the program to open in workspace X, where I started the program.

This is a bug report for Brainstorm idea 17398, where more motivation for this to be implemented is provided <http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17398/>.

[oswaldovelez (oswaldovelez)]

this is a wishlist so it should be marked as that.

[Rarian Rakista (rakista)]

This should be considered a bug since 6.x. It is dysfunctional to be unable to expect where an application will open and it severely limits productivity of people who use multiple dekstops and monitors.

Fedora does not have this problem
Mac OS do not have this problem
Even windows does not have this problem

Why does Ubuntu?

[Umang Varma (umang)]

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5448/ had a moderator say that metacity would be the right package...

But I vaguely remember seeing an option that allows you to change this behavior... I was dreaming maybe?

[anabelli (anabelli)]

One year later, where is the solution?

[Ernesto (erjoalgo)]

One year later, and nobody gives a fuck about this.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

I'm setting this bug to "Incomplete" as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue when using a currently maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know which one(s) otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for One Hundred Papercuts because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[brad1138 (brad1138)]

You replied, "sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner" in a bug post that hasn't been posted to in over 10 years.....

Pretty sure that isn't relevant anymore. I stopped using Linux around 10 years ago...