switching to application spanning two workspaces selects wrong workspace

[Anders Nylund]

Steps to reproduce:
1. open an application on the upper-left workspace
2. move the application window down so that a couple of pixels move out of the screen, this can easily happen by accident
3. select the the empty workspace below (lower-left)
4. click on the launcher icon for the open application
5. nothing will seem to happen, because a couple of pixels of the application is already on the "empty" workspace, so the active workspace will still be lower-left, but it is extremely hard to notice the bottom of the application appearing on top of the panel shadow.

[Maróti Ádám (jmarotiadam)]

But if you move another workspace and then click again the application on the launcher, the active desktop will be the upper left. at least for me. Or I badly interpreted?

[Anders Nylund (nylund-anders)]

I understand your comment as: In step "4", the "upper-left" workspace slides into view to show the title-bar and the largest part of the application window, and the "lower-left" workspace containing the hardly visible bottom part of the application window, slides out of view.

This would be the correct behaviour, but that is not what is happening for me.

Actually the order of the workspaces is not important, whenever some small part of an application is present on the current workspace, selecting that application does not switch workspace to the one where the largest part of the application is present. You can also use super-W or Alt-Tab to switch to the application and get the same behaviour.

Btw, I'm running unity in virtual-box on a windows host.

[Maróti Ádám (jmarotiadam)]

hi, after a few day i interpreted what about it. :D
Yeh this is realy irritating. The "application is in?" function is realy sensitive, perceive in a few pixel, but this is in the upper left/right workspace is wrong becouse the panel's shadow is hide the few pixel, and if the application just few pixel is the workspace the shadow hide it, seemingly when we click the application nothing happens.

So the "applisation is in?" function could be more indulgent, in the upper left /right workspace.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Confirming issue. Unity should move to the workspace which has the majority of the window inside it.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

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[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

Priority set to 'low' because the bug has an easy work-around.

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