GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 638213
Workspace switcher preferences : "Show all workspaces in _ rows" is not working
Last modified: 2011-02-01 00:48:22 UTC
Hi, [ankur@ankur 20101225_rati_didi]$ rpm -q gnome-panel gnome-panel-2.32.0.2-2.fc14.x86_64 The workspace switcher preference for displaying the workspaces in a number of rows is ignored. This has been reported here also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479478 regards, Ankur
It works fine for me, so it is not a "doesn't work at all" bug but a "do for some unknown reason not work in some situations" bug. Try to create another account (on the same or another machine) and see if you can reproduce it there - or what changes can make the issue go away.
Works fine for me too. Need better steps.
I have Fedora 14, and it started happening to me also after the software updater ran a few days ago. I created a new user (which started with a clean home directory), and the panel workspace switcher problem still happens. I want a 4x4 grid with 16 workspaces, and on a panel at the top, it put all 16 across, even though I set 4 rows. In my normal account, I have a panel on the right. If I add a new panel on the top and place a workspace switcher in that panel, it shows all 16 vertically. The problem might be a confusion with the orientation and with the double use of the rows variable based on the orientation. If it doesn't happen for everyone, it might be specific to Fedora 14 or maybe whether all of the Fedora 14 packages are updated or which Fedora repositories are enabled. After I installed Fedora, I ran rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm I periodically save the results of "rpm -qa". I compared listings before and after the problem. The version of gnome-panel did not change. The problem might be due to a change in another package. Here are some of the changes (before/after): boost-1.44.0-1.fc14.i686 boost-1.44.0-4.fc14.i686 dbus-1.4.0-1.fc14.i686 dbus-1.4.0-2.fc14.i686 kernel-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 kernel-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.i686 libwnck-2.30.3-1.fc14.i686 libwnck-2.30.4-1.fc14.i686 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.9.1-3.fc14.i686 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.9.3-3.fc14.i686 If you want, I could send the full results "rpm -qa" from a bit before the problem started and from shortly after it started. Let me know if there is anything that I can do to help. I downloaded gnome-panel-2.32.0.2-2.fc14.src.rpm and libwnck-2.30.4-1.fc14.src.rpm, unpacked them with rpm -ivh, and built them with rpmbuild -bc, so I am at a place where I can add patches or debug code. William williambader@hotmail.com
(In reply to comment #1) > It works fine for me, so it is not a "doesn't work at all" bug but a "do for > some unknown reason not work in some situations" bug. I do however see one issue: Changing the number of rows isn't shown immediately. Changing the number of workspaces is shown immediately. (Also on Fedora 14)
This bug is a duplicate of Bug 630229. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630229
Indeed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 630229 ***