Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75491
left workspace shift has strange behavior
Last modified: 2012-02-02 14:26:03 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: When you move to the right workspace everything works fairly sensibly: if you're on the left you move to the right, if you're on the right, you move to the next row. Moving left, however, acts quite strangely. If you're on the right, it behaves sensibly. If you're on the left, it moves to some hard to predict place. In particular, I have 8 workspaces arranged as follows: 1 5 2 6 3 7 4 8 Moving left at 4 goes to 5, 1 goes to 8, 2 goes to 7 and 3 goes to 6. This has the interesting property that going left repeatedly cycles through only 4 out of the 8 workspaces, which 4 depending on where you start. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Just arrange the workspaces as noted above and go left. Additional info:
An additional bug, which is closely related so I might as well tack it on here: when you're moving from workspace to workspace, that lovely little display comes up in the middle of the screen showing you where you are. It doesn't come up when you are moving a window to another workspace, and it seems to me that it should.
This code was recently replaced in metacity CVS, it should be sorted out (or at least have different bugs) when we upgrade the version.
Should be fixed in latest (though it intentionally no longer wraps, it does behave predictably)