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Bug 122512 - Switcher misaligns desktops
Switcher misaligns desktops
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 122086
Product: libwnck
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.4.x
Other other
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: libwnck maintainers
libwnck maintainers
: 119781 122511 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 122511
 
 
Reported: 2003-09-17 09:41 UTC by Bobby D. Bryant
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Bobby D. Bryant 2003-09-17 09:41:23 UTC 
Some recent version of the Workspace Switcher (or some library it interacts
with) has changed its behavior. Formerly, whenever you clicked _anywhere_
in a cell it would center that cell's workspace on your screen with all the
windows in their original positions. Now it aligns the relative point that
you clicked within the cell at the upper left corner of the screen, with
all your application windows shifted accordingly. In principle it might let
you put everything where it belongs iff you could click exactly in the
upper-left corner of a cell, but in practice it won't quite make things
line up (presumably because even if you hit the upper-left-most pixel in
the cell, that represents ~20 pixels on the full screen).

Panels and the background image are _not_ displaced; only application
windows.  I see this behavior with both Metacity and Sawfish.

I flag this as a "blocker" because it renders the Switcher useless; one
accidental click and you can never get your windows back where they belong
again short of logging out.

Thanks.
Comment 1 Kim Sandström 2003-09-18 12:18:48 UTC 
*** Bug 122511 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Kim Sandström 2003-09-18 12:25:14 UTC 
The same bug is also entered as a sawfish bug 122205. It's not a
sawfish bug in my opinion.
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2003-10-13 21:49:34 UTC 
*** Bug 119781 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Vincent Untz 2003-10-13 21:52:04 UTC 
I'm cc'ing Havoc, but I'd really say that it's a bug in sawfish. Can
you reproduce with metacity ?
Comment 5 Bobby D. Bryant 2003-10-14 00:48:26 UTC 
I would have sworn that I tried it under metacity when I first spotted
it, and saw it there as well, but I just tried it tonight and I see it
in Sawfish but *not* metacity.

As with the others who mentioned this in the linked bugs, I am using
Sawfish 1.3.  However, I *think* I was already using 1.3 when this
started.  It started when I upgraded GARNOME and rebuilt everything,
including Sawfish, so it might be an interaction between Sawfish and
some other library.
Comment 6 Bobby D. Bryant 2003-10-14 01:18:01 UTC 
I went ahead and downgraded Sawfish to the gnomish 1.2-gtk2, and that
still misbehaves as well.

Let me know if you need any library version numbers or have an
experiment for me to try.
Comment 7 Mark McLoughlin 2004-04-19 15:06:11 UTC 
I *think* this is a dup of bug #122086 - please try libwnck 2.6.1 which will be
released shortly

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122086 ***