Ubuntu
gnome-shell package

Changing the position of the dock moves applications to first workspace

Bug #1965505 reported by Paul White
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
New
Low
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gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu)
New
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

I have a two monitor set-up with four workspaces on the primary display and an additional workspace on the secondary display. I normally have an application running in each workspace.

If I open Settings | Dock | Position on screen and change the setting from 'Left' to 'Bottom' I find that the applications on workspaces 3 and 4 move to workspace 1. The applications in workspaces 1 and 2 remain running in those workspaces. Reverting to the change doesn't move the applications back to their former workspace.

There have been other occasions when I have seen this behaviour but am I unable to reproduce at this time.

Primary monitor: External - four workspaces
Secondary monitor: Laptop internal - single workspace

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: mutter-common 42~beta-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-22.22-generic 5.15.19
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu79
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Mar 18 08:03:00 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-11-11 (126 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" - Release amd64 (20211012)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: mutter
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2021-11-11 (126 days ago)

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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Does moving the dock affect any of your apps' ability to use the full height/width of the screen?

affects: mutter (Ubuntu) → gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

No, the applications once moved can be used normally.

Strangely, I'm now seeing the apps on workspaces 3 and 4 move to the secondary display even though the primary display was the last used and after continued changing of the dock position (including moving it to the right) the application on workspace 2 moved to workspace 1 which it hadn't done so before. So all applications were either on workspace 1 (primary) or the secondary display.

There are clearly other problems which may or may not be related. After continued changing of the dock position: the icon size reduced to 16 (was 32) and once an application has moved the titlebar doesn't always respond to the first mouse click.

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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

The secondary display is actually my laptop's internal monitor, the primary display is an external monitor. If I close the laptop lid and so disconnect the laptop's monitor I think that moving the position of the dock works normally with a single display so this is a dual monitor related bug.

description: updated
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
tags: added: multimonitor
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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote (last edit ):

Changing status to "Incomplete" as I can't currently reproduce this issue which was so easy to do so before when using two displays.

Edit: sorry for the noise, This is still an issue.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
Changed in gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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