Closing this, marking it "invalid", is inappropriate. "100 paper cuts"
doesn't mean 100 trivial bugs which are easy to fix, it means 100 small
annoyances that piss off users, particularly newbie ones who don't know the
workarounds. Please UNDO this change of status.
Paul Beardsell
p...@beardsell
The only available workaround: Disable compiz. Compiz is but eye-candy, you
and your users will prefer Ubuntu with unbroken multiple workspaces. And
candy isn't good for you :-)
Some would say that complaining about this bug means:
* you misunderstand the Ubuntu bug reporting politics
* you are
I had not realised I was criticising you so very personally as to provoke
that outburst.
Perhaps it is you who misunderstand. The current workaround for this bug is
to disable compiz. But, one has to ask, and this is my point: Why should
compiz even have the opportunity of breaking workspaces?
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 17:17 +, Paul Beardsell wrote:
> If I wanted
> an app's display to open on a particular workspace on a monitor I could do
> so by specifying '-display :0.3' or to choose a particular monitor I
> could use '-display :3'. We miss a trick or two now. And whereas
>
Followup: the link I posted before is to a great documentation site;
the Devils Pie website itself is:
http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie
Aside: Please, let's try to keep messages to
150...@bugs.launchpad.net relevant to Bug 150690. (I know, I'm as
guilty as the next guy...)
Kind
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Paul Beardsell wrote:
> I'm not sure I would change hardly a word of my posting. [...]
Me either; deficiencies are deficiencies, and X has some.
Paul, check out this tool: http://foosel.org/linux/devilspie
I think you'll be a happy camper unless you're allerg
I'm not sure I would change hardly a word of my posting. It seems to me the
multi-monitor Unix systems I was lucky enough to work on sometimes in the
1990's could have been implemented just as poorly as the multi-workspace
idea we have in Gnome and similar on Linux. But they were not. If I wante
In my opinion the whole workspace thing is a hack implemented against the
way X is supposed to work. Each workspace is not traditionally addressable.
E.g. I cannot choose which workspace/pane my windowed application opens in
- it's always the current one. E.g both
xterm -display :0 &
xterm -dis
Go, Ryan, Go! Wahoo!
Kind regards,
-Paul Reiber
Phone: (210)854-8253
Email: p...@reiber.org
Web: http://bit.ly/reiber
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Ryan Beard wrote:
> Paul - I had a similar prognosis. My initial plan is to develop a
> universal workspace switcher - one that will query (
Paul - I had a similar prognosis. My initial plan is to develop a
universal workspace switcher - one that will query (and monitor) the
window manager to determine the compositing engine, and then play along.
I'm reading up on some of the compiz APIs now. I'd really like to
incorporate some addit
Ryan - here's my understanding of this issue. I believe, at the heart
of the issue is that Compiz handles virtual desktops quite differently
than Metacity.
Because of this, it "fakes" any apps using the Metacity virtual
desktop API into thinking there's only one virtual desktop. I'm not
sure of
Thanks Paul. I've downloaded the Grub development kit, and I'll be
setting up conary today. I'll let you how things go.
-ryan
On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 22:36 +, PaulReiber wrote:
> Ryan,
>
> If you're willing to dig/investigate, code, debug, and submit, I'm
> certainly willing to help.
>
> I'
Ryan,
If you're willing to dig/investigate, code, debug, and submit, I'm
certainly willing to help.
I've been programming/administering UNIX for ~30 years, Linux for ~15.
My strengths are... well, pretty wide-reaching, but not so much in the
GUI/Gnome/Window-manager/Virtual-Desktop coding details
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ryan Beard wrote:
> Is this patch still applicable to Lucid? I'm unable to locate pager.c
>
> --
> Can't drag a window to another workspace
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150690
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a du
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Paul Beardsell wrote:
> Something is going wrong when my favourite o/s (of which I am a deeply
> appreciative long time desktop user and boring evangelist) can have all its
> window buttons moved top left and the background changed to lurid purple but
> the desktop
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:01 AM, wdesmet wrote:
> This only affects the workplace switcher applet, which I thought windows
> didn't have?
Indeed that appears to have been Allen's point - that workspace
switching is something "new" that you don't see in Windows. Thus, new
users try it out and like
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:39 AM, allankelly wrote:
> This is still present in 9.10. [...affecting...] first impressions.
Yes - depressing isn't it? However there doesn't appear to be a
clear-cut fix because of how the implementation of workspaces differs
from metacity to compiz. (oversimplifying
Something is going wrong when my favourite o/s (of which I am a deeply
appreciative long time desktop user and boring evangelist) can have all its
window buttons moved top left and the background changed to lurid purple but
the desktop switcher does not work (for ordinary mortals) as it should.
St
Hear! Hear!
Paul Beardsell
p...@beardsell.com
On 9 April 2010 08:39, allankelly wrote:
> This is still present in 9.10. I believe the most important issues are
> those a) visible to new users out-of-the-box and b) which obviously
> differ from Windows. Hence this is a very important issue whic
This tool-tip issue has nothing to do with the REAL bug.
Please, let's stay on focus. If you think the tool-tip issue is
serious enough, open a NEW bug, and discuss it there.
This bug's about broken functionality, not about tool-tips.
Kind regards,
-Paul Reiber
Email: p...@reiber.org
Web: http:
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