GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 661419
windows overlapping over wrong activities desktop
Last modified: 2011-11-08 12:59:49 UTC
When opening the activities panel there are applications that shouldn't be in the active virtual desktop. They all appear there. After switching from one virtual desktop to another it seems to correct itself. When opening the Activities panel each app should appear in its own virtual desktop and not overlapping in the current one. From: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/853582
Is there anything significant in ~/.xsession-errors?
Yes, I get the following repeated many times over when going to Activities and the problem is occurring: ^[ JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: Error invoking GConf.get_string: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error: Method "LookupExtended" with signature "ssb" on interface "org.gnome.GConf.Database" doesn't exist JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0' JS ERROR: !!! fileName = '"gjs_throw"' JS ERROR: !!! stack = '"("Error invoking GConf.get_string: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error: Method \"LookupExtended\" with signature \"ssb\" on interface \"org.gnome.GConf.Database\" doesn't exist\n")@gjs_throw:0 (0,26,222,458)@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/workspace.js:509 ([object Object],[object Object],true)@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/workspace.js:1075 ()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/workspace.js:1089 ()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/workspace.js:1119 ()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/workspacesView.js:253 (false)@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/workspacesView.js:239 ([object _private_St_Group])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/workspacesView.js:43 ()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/overview.js:595 ()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/overview.js:564 ()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/overview.js:693 ([object _private_Clutter_Rectangle],[object _private_Clutter_Event])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/layout.js:509
I think this is being triggered after certain package upgrades - I upgraded some gnome-related debs (not incuding gnome-shell) a bit before and I just noticed this happening now. Perhaps a post-installation GConf hook is causing the GConf client in gnome-shell to break? (Shouldn't gnome-shell be using GSettings, anyway?). It's odd that no other applications exhibit this problem, though.
I'm encountering the same problem, also on Ubuntu 11.10 and also with the same error information being added to ~/.xsession-errors.
This is a dup of bug #659835 - it occurs after after the gconf daemon is sent SIGHUP, say after a deb package upgrade ḣas called the gconf2 trigger *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 659835 ***
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