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Bug 1725741 - Reverting workspaces to primary display only not working
Summary: Reverting workspaces to primary display only not working
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gnome-tweaks
Version: 8.1
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.0
Assignee: Milan Crha
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Blocks: 1678350
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-07-01 11:24 UTC by Martin Krajnak
Modified: 2020-11-14 09:26 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: gnome-tweaks-3.28.1-5.el8
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Last Closed: 2019-11-05 22:14:33 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:3553 0 None None None 2019-11-05 22:14:44 UTC

Description Martin Krajnak 2019-07-01 11:24:22 UTC 
Description of problem:
I was testing workspaces recently, I switched to "Workspaces span displays", then back to Workspaces on primary display onlyWorkspaces on primary display only, the workspaces remained on all displays.

Setup: 3 displays, 2 monitors laptop screen, X, Standard Gnome ession

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-tweaks-3.28.1-4.el8.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Tweaks
2.Navigate to Workspaces
3.Click "Workspaces span displays"
4.Verify the option changed by switching workspaces
5.Click "Workspaces on primary display only"

Actual results:
Still switching workspaces on all displays, logout/reboot still not working

Expected results:
Should switch workspaces only on primary displays

Additional info:
$ gsettings get org.gnome.mutter workspaces-only-on-primary
$ false
$ gsettings set org.gnome.mutter workspaces-only-on-primary true

Workspaces are working properly, so it looks like tweaks are not setting the option.
Comment 1 Milan Crha 2019-07-01 12:10:35 UTC 
Thanks for a bug report. When I revert a change for this gnome-tweaks bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786311
then the things will start working. The bug mentions changes in gnome-shell, thus maybe the gnome-shell (or mutter) version being used doesn't correspond to expected keys used by gnome-tweaks.

I can revert the upstream fix, but I'm afraid it'll regress in the future, once gnome-shell/mutter are updated to the "patched" versions. Just patching gnome-shell/mutter may break some other things, thus I'm not sure what to do.
Comment 2 Milan Crha 2019-07-01 12:17:16 UTC 
By the way, what are your gnome-shell and mutter versions, please? The latest in git is 3.32.2-4 for gnome-shell and 3.32.2-5 for mutter.
Comment 3 Martin Krajnak 2019-07-01 12:18:33 UTC 
gnome-shell-3.32.2-4.el8.x86_64
mutter-3.32.2-4.el8.x86_64
Comment 4 Martin Krajnak 2019-07-01 12:19:00 UTC 
gnome-shell-3.32.2-4.el8.x86_64
mutter-3.32.2-4.el8.x86_64

I can update mutter to latest if required
Comment 5 Milan Crha 2019-07-01 12:29:48 UTC 
I do not know yet, both have plenty of patches. I'm not a developer of any of the two, I've no idea what they do, either good or bad.

Florian, could you confirm whether the above mentioned (comment #1) upstream fix should be reverted in gnome-tweaks for the RHEL8, please?
Comment 6 Martin Krajnak 2019-07-01 12:39:29 UTC 
Side comment, I updated mutter to -5, tried to reproduce again but it looks and switching to "Workspaces span displays has no effect",
not even after session reset.

I was wondering, that it might be because I overided the option via gsettings, not sure though....
Comment 7 Milan Crha 2019-07-01 12:43:39 UTC 
(In reply to Martin Krajnak from comment #6)
> Side comment, I updated mutter to -5, tried to reproduce again but it looks
> and switching to "Workspaces span displays has no effect",
> not even after session reset.

I'm sorry, I do not follow the above formulation.

> I was wondering, that it might be because I overided the option via
> gsettings, not sure though....

You can remove the user setting by:

   $ gsetting reset org.gnome.mutter workspaces-only-on-primary
Comment 8 Florian Müllner 2019-07-02 15:24:16 UTC 
Sorry I forgot about tweaks.

This is due to a change how mutter/gnome-shell handle non-gnome/gnome/classic specific defaults.


(In reply to Milan Crha from comment #5)

> Florian, could you confirm whether the above mentioned (comment #1) upstream
> fix should be reverted in gnome-tweaks for the RHEL8, please?

My preferred option would be to cherry-pick the corresponding upstream fix instead:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-tweaks/merge_requests/9
Comment 9 Milan Crha 2019-07-02 15:37:33 UTC 
(In reply to Florian Müllner from comment #8)
> My preferred option would be to cherry-pick the corresponding upstream fix
> instead:
> 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-tweaks/merge_requests/9

Thanks for the explanation and the pointer. I'll backport it.
Comment 11 Martin Krajnak 2019-07-03 08:44:00 UTC 
gnome-tweaks-3.28.1-5.el8.noarch
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 22:14:33 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3553
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