Desktop effects, workspaces, and the workspace switcher
Colin Paul Adams
colin at colina.demon.co.uk
Sat Jun 21 05:51:43 UTC 2008
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Mury <brianmury at alumni.uvic.ca> writes:
Brian> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 07:29 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> I have a 7x3 arrangement of workspaces.
>>
>> I just tried turning on desktop effects. Immediately I notice
>> that the switcher no longer displays an iconic representation
>> of windows in other workspaces. Is there a way to restore this
>> behaviour?
>>
>> I'm also a little confused about worksapces on a cube - it
>> seems to be that each individual workspace has a total of 7
>> desktop panes. This seems
Brian> Did you log out and back in after turning on desktop
Brian> effects? I saw the same behaviour until I did that, then
Brian> everything worked as expected.
No, I hadn't.
So now I have tried that. Immediately I see only one workspace, with
all the windows unmovable and obscuring the GNOME menu bar.
So I close some of the windows, so I can disable desktop effects. All
is working now. I then try re-enbaling desktop effects, but the system
r3eports that it is unable to do so.
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
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