GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 689695
Windows lose position and workspace when unplugging/plugging external monitor
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:52:43 UTC
How to reproduce: 1. Have 2 monitors, e.g.: - laptop internal monitor - external monitor (the main monitor) 2. On the main monitor, place some windows on the first workspace and other windows on the second workspace 3. Unplug the external monitor => the windows move to the internal monitor => the windows stay on their correct workspace 4. Plug the external monitor again => the windows stay on the internal monitor => they are all on the first workspace At step 3, the windows should move back to their previous monitor and stay on their workspace.
This still happens with mutter-3.14 and if I understand correctly from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Tasklist (search for "Docking station teardown behaviour") also for mutter 3.16.
and still mutter-3.18.2 (Fedora 23 Workstation)
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