Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75300
gnome panels do not stick across sawfish viewports.
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:15 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I added the following to my .sawfishrc to activate viewports (why something so critical was disabled is beyond me): ;; Get viewports back (setq customize-command-classes '(default viewport)) ;; (setq viewport-dimensions '(NUMBER_OF_COLS . NUMBER_OF_ROWS)) (setq viewport-dimensions '(4 . 4)) ;; example So.. I can use viewports again. However, all of my gnome panels/applets are only visible on the first viewport. If I switch to any other viewports, the panels disappear. A slightly related question: is there anything analogous to the Desk Guide applet in RH 7.3? The "workspace switcher" doesn't show viewports. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable sawfish, something that isn't easy to do in RH 8.0. 2. Add the lines mentioned above to your .sawfishrc. 3. Press a key that is bound to one of the "move viewport" commands. Actual Results: The desktop switches viewports, but the panels seem to be treated like regular applications, and they don't stick with the new viewport. Expected Results: The desktop switches viewports, and the panels are still visible. Additional info: Trying to set the panels as "sticky" in sawfish had no effect, though I had little hope it would. I can set regular windows sticky.
Sawfish is provided on an as-is basis only, feature requests such as viewports should go to bugzilla.gnome.org. We will pick up any viewport enhancements available in newer upstream versions. There's no workspace applet that supports viewports at the moment, no.
After some searching, I found a fix for this, from: http://lists.eazel.com/pipermail/sawfish/2002-July/003673.html The following patch fixes the behavior: --- lisp/sawfish/wm/windows.jl.orig 2002-07-24 11:28:45.000000000 -0700 +++ lisp/sawfish/wm/windows.jl 2002-07-24 11:29:00.000000000 -0700 @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ (defvar dock-window-properties '(window-list-skip cycle-skip fixed-position focus-click-through avoid no-history never-iconify never-maximize sticky - stick-viewport placed) + sticky-viewport placed) "List of properties set (to true) on windows marked as docks.")