GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 702114
dragging icon of running application to new workspace creates and destroys the workspace
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:05:12 UTC
(Moving upstream from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924403) Description of problem: If Firefox or Nautilus is already running, and you drag the icon for Firefox or Nautilus from the Favorites bar on the left over to the bottom workspace on the right, it will create a new workspace, then destroy the workspace you dragged the icon to, and the new workspace takes the place of the old one. The new Firefox / Nautilus window then appears on the current workspace. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-shell-3.8.3-1.fc19.x86_64 firefox-21.0-3.fc19.x86_64 nautilus-3.8.1-1.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. start with a fresh login to Gnome with no applications running 2. start Firefox 3. go the Activities overview 4. click-and-drag the Firefox icon (NOT the window!) from the Favorites bar to the bottom workspace on the right Actual results: the bottom workspace is destroyed, a new one takes its place, and the new Firefox window appears on the workspace with the old Firefox window Expected results: a new Firefox window appears on the new workspace
As per downstream, this may be an issue with startup notification in the apps themselves, in which case Firefox obviously isn't GNOME's problem, but Nautilus may be - so if that's the case, please re-assign this to Nautilus. Thanks! Note that, again as described downstream, in my experience Nautilus behaves slightly worse than Firefox: the Nautilus window does not in fact appear on the first workspace while you still have the overview open. It doesn't appear anywhere until you close the overview, at which point it suddenly pops into existence.
It's because DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID is unset.
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