Bug 30934 – Workspace Switcher behavior changed - BAD

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Paul Kronenwetter 2003-10-11 16:20:28 UTC]

When the workspace switcher is used to switch workspaces by clicking on the square representing a new workspace it re-centers the windows on that workspace to where the mouse click was.  So, in order for the windows to be properly placed when switching workspaces, the mouse click must be *exactly* on the upper-left corner of the workspace to be chosen.  If the click is anywhere else in the box, the windows are moved off-screen to the upper-left.  I can provide screenshots if desired.

This was working fine up until the last week or two and corresponded to the raft of gnome changes that just went through.  

I'm using sawfish 1.3 as my window manager because I can't stand the others, or they don't have the same capabilities.  Please don't suggest that I change window managers.

I tried reverting gnome-panel back to 2.2.2.2 and 2.2.2 but the abhorrent behavior persisted.  I also can't find any setting that would change this behavior but would welcome input along these lines.  The .gnome* directories have not been re-created after the 2.2.2 -> 2.4 transition.  Ditto if these should be removed and re-created.

Thanks!

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Update to current gnome packages
2. Add "Workspace Switcher" to the panel, if not already present.
3. Make sure more than one workspace exists.
4. Click on a workspace with the mouse anywhere but the upper-left corner.
5. Be quite annoyed the windows are now shifted off the screen :)

Actual results: Windows are now shifted off the screen to the upper-left in the new workspace (and all others).

Expected results: Windows stayed where they were placed before and the new workspace is selected.

Reproducable: Always. :(

emerge info output:
Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22-ac4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.22-ac4 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.20GHz
distcc 2.9 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.2 [enabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=pentium3 -march=i586 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /lib/modules /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /var/spool/amanda/.amandahosts /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/export/home1/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox buildpkg ccache distcc userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.noved.org/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ http://212.219.247.10/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/"
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib svga tcltk java guile mysql postgres X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt motif opengl mozilla cdr scanner acpi apache2 dvd ethereal gd gphoto2 gps ipv6 junit mbox pcmcia pda plotutils samba sse tiff trusted usb -cups -kde"

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2003-10-11 16:32:44 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30264 ***