Bug 1302568

Summary:	Windows lose workspace after switching to external monitor
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Component:	mutter	Assignee:	Florian Müllner <fmuellner>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	23	CC:	fmuellner, otaylor, walters
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Description Jens Petersen 2016-01-28 08:17:28 UTC

Description of problem:
I use a monitor as my main display at my desk for my laptop.
Sometimes I take my laptop away and come back later reconnect it to the monitor
which usually causes all my windows to lose their workspace placement.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mutter-3.18.2-1.fc23
gnome-shell-3.18.3-1.fc23

How reproducible:
85%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use multiple windows on monitor from laptop with laptop display disabled
2. disconnect laptop from monitor
3. reconnect laptop to monitor and disable laptop display

Actual results:
3. My windows now all on same workstation

Expected results:
Windows' workspaces to be preserved.

Additional info:
After some years and doing this more frequently, this has become so annoying
that I made a small script using wmctrl to reset my windows to their usual
workspaces.

https://github.com/juhp/configuration/blob/master/bin/workspace-reset

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Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2016-12-19 09:57:33 UTC

Not sure if it is fixed but seems lot less frequent under F24/F25.

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