Bug 8498

Summary:	compiz breaks wnck-applet
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Marco Cabizza <marco87>
Component:	App/compiz	Assignee:	David Reveman <reveman>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	d-bugzilla, maxima.bugs, mlists
Version:	7.1 (2006.05)
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Marco Cabizza 2006-10-03 15:27:05 UTC

The GNOME workspace selector appears fairly useless because the compiz
workspaces are treated as one big workspace and sending windows from one to
another one is impossible through the applet.

Moreover, I used to have 12 workspaces and now I'm forced to 4 ( both cube and
rotate plugins are enabled ), while it should keep the GNOME settings. Perhaps
the cube plugin should be revised into something "more" than a cube? Maybe
providing better integration with wnck-applet (considering people having 2-line
workspaces ( and therefore using a more complicated 3D figure, than just a cube,
which would be pretty cool ).

And I apologise for the abused of the word "workspace" but I actually enjoyed
writing it :)

Comment 1 David Reveman 2006-10-11 16:44:17 UTC

compiz currently implementeds the feature called a "large desktop" and not
multiple workspaces like metacity. We're probably going to add support for
workspaces as well but a "large desktop" and viewports are what compiz currently
support. I know that I've sent libwnck patches to the compiz list that will make
the pager support moving of windows between viewports.

You're not forced to 4. You can change the
/apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/hsize option to a greater number if you
want that.

Comment 2 Ismael Juma 2006-10-13 08:17:49 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> I know that I've sent libwnck patches to the compiz list that will make
> the pager support moving of windows between viewports.

I believe this is being tracked in the following bug report:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352383

Comment 3 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:33:49 UTC

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

Comment 4 Danny Baumann 2007-08-17 00:23:23 UTC

Applied in Gnome SVN according to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352383, thus closing as fixed.

Use of freedesktop.org services, including Bugzilla, is subject to our Code of Conduct. How we collect and use information is described in our Privacy Policy.