Comment 2 for bug 110899

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Sami Nybacka (sapeny) wrote :

While above actually seems to be feature request (allow transport windows to one display/screen to another), here's bug report of current Ubuntu Gutsy Workspace Switcher with dual screen setup.

Workspace Switcher 2.20.0.1 on most current 7.10.

I have dual screen setup (no xinerama or similar). Screen 0 is laptop builtin screen. Screen 1 is external LCD. I have Workspace Switcher (WS) with 12 workspaces and 3 rows on both screen's gnome-panels.

Problem: screen1 WS is showing windows from screen0, and acts like it is attached to screen0: when using mouse or keyboard shortcuts to switch workspace on screen1, it changes workspace on screen0.

When I remove WS from screen1 gnome-panel and add it again, everything works fine on both screens/WS's. But after a logout/login, screen1 WS is again attached to screen0.

This happens also on another computer at work. Only difference is that there primary screen's WS works, but secondary screen's WS doesn't. And again: when I remove WS from secondary screen's gnome-panel and add it again, everything works ok on both screens, until the next logout.

It seems that both screen's Workspace Switchers work normally if there's only 1 row of workspaces. When using for example 3 rows, screen0 or screen1 WS starts following the other (wrong) screen (on next login).

Previous Ubuntu did not have this problem.