GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 700387
Nautilus starts in the wrong workspace after I've drag and droped its icon into a new workspace
Last modified: 2013-05-15 19:15:02 UTC
In the overview, if I drag an application icon to the workspace thumbnail bar, targeting a new workspace between two existing ones, application starts in another workspace than the one I try to create. I'm not sure this behaviour is really wanted by the designer. If not, when dragging an icon over the workspace thumbnails, gnome-shell should not show the 'create a new workspace' animation.
If you drag the application to a workspace, we tell it to launch on the right workspace, by using startup notification hints. The problem is, some applications disregard startup notification, or have bugs with it (especially with secondary windows). Also, it is possible that the startup timeouts, in which case we remove any workspace association. In any case, this is not really a problem with gnome-shell. You should file a bug at the relevant application.
It happens with nautilus and firefox. I know firefox startup doesn't work nicely in gnome-shell, but I would have expected nautilus to work. gnome-terminal seems to work correctly. I'm reassigning this bug to nautilus.
Do you have desktop icons turned on, or other nautilus windows open?
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 654811 ***
It happens on the first window, without desktop icons turned on. So it looks like it's not a duplicate of 654811.
Which version are you testing? It may be that nautilus was still running in the background. Please run this command before testing the first window: nautilus -q
You are right António. If I run the command, nautilus appears in the right workspace (Closing the last nautilus window leaves a background instance). It's a duplicate, indeed.