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rhansen

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From: Berkeley, CA

Registered: 2012-03-25

Posts: 3

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Workspace switcher loses desktops

Hello all,

I've had an issue with the Workspace Switcher utility on my XFCE Panel. I usually have my number of workspaces set to 3, but the switcher occasionally 'loses' one of the workspaces. If I do nothing, the number can drop to one. If I have windows open in all workspaces when the number decreases, the windows in the lost workspace (I assume it's the last, usually third workspace) are moved to next highest workspace number (when two remain, the second). The workspaces remain missing until I reset it using the Workspace Switcher Preferences dialog--neither logging out and back in, nor restarting the computer have any effect.

This has been more a nuisance than a problem, but any help resolving this is definitely appreciated. I'm mostly curious both in the cause and why I haven't been able to find any related forum topics. Thanks in advance!

rhansen

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From: Berkeley, CA

Registered: 2012-03-25

Posts: 3

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Re: Workspace switcher loses desktops

I'm using XFCE 4.8 on Ubuntu 11.10. I don't know what logs might be helpful--if anyone has an idea I'll copy the outputs here.

angstrom

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Registered: 2011-08-13

Posts: 267

Re: Workspace switcher loses desktops

Try to clean the folder ~/.cache
Try to create an empty account see if you have also this behavior ?

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Rafael van Horn

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Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 1

Re: Workspace switcher loses desktops

I have very similar problem. I have set the desktop switcher to have 4 desktops as I am used to.
The switcher sometimes reset it to 5. When I try to set it back to desired 4, it deletes all the desktops and it sets 1.
I haven't found out WHEN IT HAPPENS, so I can't tell you how to replicate this bug. BUT... I think that XFCE generally forgets its settings and resets them to some default values. For example the keyboard layout switcher plugin, which always forgets the set keyboard shortcut after reboot. Things like that happen to me often with Xfce...

I have Xfce 4.8 and Ubuntu 11.10.

Thanks for some advice.

daggoth

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 42

Re: Workspace switcher loses desktops

but the switcher occasionally 'loses' one of the workspaces. If I do nothing, the number can drop to one.

I had this problem once too... mostly due to the dreaded fat-fingered syndrome! The xfce window manager has some extra keybindings/hotkeys, some of which can add or delete a workspace. And my keyboard-mashing had inadvertantly pressed that annoying key-combo...

Fat-fingered syndrome can be contagious. So thusly, if you have this problem, then that pesky "delete workspace" key-combo can be removed by going to Settings-->Window_Manager-->Keyboard.
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Last edited by daggoth (2012-05-31 23:42:58)