Awn

Expo's preview shows AWN as is in current viewport

Bug #502526 reported by WhyNotHugo
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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)

Tags: expo
WhyNotHugo (whynothugo)
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moonbeam (rcryderman) wrote :

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.

Changed in awn:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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WhyNotHugo (whynothugo) wrote :

Another possible workaround, might be AWN updating to the viewport preview which the mouse hovers in expo, but i'm not sure if there's an API (or something else) to determine which viewport preview gains focus.

I'll consider using the one-panel-per-viewport option once there's multiple panel support, but there'd be a need to bind each panel with a single desktop as well (I mean when you start up the X, that each panel should remember in which desktop it was).
This later method has some additional advantages; media desktop could have VLC as sticky (launcher), etc etc.

Povilas Kanapickas (p12)
Changed in awn:
importance: Wishlist → Low
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