Bug 773013

Summary:	Dual-Head: destroys workspaces when adding head
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nils Philippsen <nphilipp>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	maxamillion, nphilipp, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description Nils Philippsen 2012-01-10 16:52:11 UTC

Description of problem:
I have a laptop and use it with both single- and dual-head setups, the latter with the internal laptop display as the auxiliary head, i.e. where windows are pinned so they are always visible, regardless of the active workspace. When switching to dual-head, the laptop screen becomes the auxiliary display, but the windows previously spread over the workspaces don't get moved to the new primary head (external screen). Instead, all windows from all workspaces on the one auxiliary display, and only one workspace remains.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mutter-3.2.1-2.fc16.x86_64
gnome-shell-3.2.1-2.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Reproducible.

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Configure dual head with external display on the left as the primary screen, holding the GNOME shell menubar and workspaces, and the internal display as the auxiliary screen where windows go that should be visible from all workspaces.
1. Open some programs, and spread them on workspaces and the auxiliary screen.
2. Switch to single-head (e.g. by pressing the CRT/LCD function key on the laptop keyboard), this moves pinned windows to one of the workspaces (which one by the way, is this deterministic in some way, can this be influenced?)
3. Switch back to dual-head.

Actual results:
All windows are on the auxiliary screen, only one workspace remains

Expected results:
All windows previously on a workspace stay on a workspace (preferably the same ;-). It's ok if windows on the auxiliary screen get moved on one workspace, I guess there isn't much one can do about it.

Additional info:
Worked in Fedora 15.

Comment 1 Nils Philippsen 2012-04-18 09:55:16 UTC

I've upgraded to Fedora 17 Beta recently and I've noticed some new weird behavior:

- When restarting the shell (Alt+F2 -> "r"), windows on the display with workspaces get somehow lumped to gether, but not all on one workspace, but two this time around...

- When changing display configuration through System Settings, as soon as you only have one display active, the windows from the previous secondoary display get moved to the primary (correct so far), but then (stay?) configured as "Always on Visible Workspace" which is most certainly not what I want. This is a regression from F-16.

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