GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 94051
[Solaris Sunray] ?Show all workspaces rows/columns? not working properly
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I'm running Sun's beta 2 build 9 source (17th Sep snapshot from CVS). I observed the following behaviour on Sunray machine. I tested on a sunray server with 2 clients. Lets say s1 - server, c1 - client and c2 - client. I logged in as the same user on all the 3 machines (s1, c1 and c2). 1. I logged into the machines in the following order: c1 first, then into s1 and then into c2. 2. Open the "Preferences" menu of the workspace switcher applet. Set the option "Number of workspaces" to 4 and “Show all workspaces" to 2 rows from s1. I observed that : the Number of workspaces displayed in the workspace switcher should be 4 in all screen (i.e s1, c1 and c2). All the workspaces are arranged in "2 * 2 " array in only s1 and c1. But 'Workspace switcher' in screen C2 shows 1 row only.
Could not simulate this problem. The only reasoning I can think of is this... S1,C1 and C2 all had the same workspace configuration at the time of login. The applet in C2 was removed and re-created, which caused a new gconf entry to be created, hence C2 pager became independent of the S1 and C1 pagers. But the bigger problem is how should things behave when there are two different clients with the same user logged in.(sunray or remote login). Just looking at this bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84101 note from havoc. - In the future, things will be redone to have one gconfd per machine, and then a server somewhere that those gconfd connect to, and also a provision for "disconnected"mode. So then the setup will be more like IMAP and you don't need network connections between all the desktop machines, and even if you lose the connection to the server machine there's a mode you can use. Havoc/Mark : guess this implementation would solve the problems reported in bug or probably define a expected behaviour. Am i right on this or completely confused ? :-)
Arvind: this is a problem with not having an instance of gnome-settings-daemon for each X display. Could you check out the patch in #94049 to see if it works on the Sunrays? Thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94049 ***