Expo's preview shows AWN as is in current viewport
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Awn |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When using compiz with expo enabled, and AWN with the option "Show window from all viewports" disabled, when I open up expo, I see a preview for all viewports with the same AWN - each showing icons for the windows opened in the currently focused viewport.
This produces two problems:
* I can't locate an iconified program quickly.
* I can't find an empty viewport if most of them host iconified windows.
I'm using Avant Window Navigator 0.3.2 with compiz. Don't think hardware/driver is relevant, since it's more of a software bug.
[Edit] Note that clicking on a window on some viewport gives it focus and updates AWN to that viewport's state. However, Viewports from 100% iconified windows can't be distinguished from empty ones (since I can't click any windows)
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in awn: | |
importance: | Wishlist → Low |
This is a fundamentally difficult problem as it would require creating a unique panel with unique instances of the applets for each viewport. instead of just making a single panel sticky as we currently do (there might be another way to do this but it would be pushing complexity into the applets which we definitely want to avoid). This would be a significant resource expenditure that probably would not be justified as a default behavior.
This being said, it could be given some consideration as an option once multiple panel support matures (turn off sticky and have awn duplicate the configured panels in every viewport/ workspace) . My suspicion is that this would probably be more pain than it would be worth, but I invite comments.