Ubuntu
libwnck package

Window selector applet does not separate windows from other workspaces in compiz

Bug #342396 reported by Alexander Khodyrev on 2009-03-13

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	libwnck (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Window selector applet's help says: "The Window Selector lists the windows in
all workspaces. The windows in all workspaces other than the current workspace
are listed under a separator line."

It really does that in metacity: windows on the current workspace are separated from windows from other workspaces. However, in compiz windows from all workspaces are listed without separators.

I'm not sure whether this is a bug in the applet or in compiz.

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Alexander Khodyrev (a-v-khodyrev) wrote on 2009-03-19:

Works in xfwm4, so probably compiz's fault.

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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote on 2010-02-25:

This bug in libwnck is fixed in ubuntu 9.10. Thanks for your participation in launchpad!

affects:	ubuntu → libwnck (Ubuntu)
Changed in libwnck (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Released

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calum (calum-gnome) wrote on 2010-03-12:

Did this patch go upstream, or is otherwise available? Someone reported the same issue in OpenSolaris: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4577

Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) on 2010-03-12

Changed in libwnck (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Released → Confirmed

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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote on 2010-03-12:

calum : Thanks for your comment. I realised that my last statement was wrong due to a bad understanding of the issue. Therefore I confirm this bug report in latest ubuntu 10.04. This should probably be reported against libwnck in GNOME.

The fact is that compiz use its own viewports specification to manage multiple desktops. Libwnck is does not support compiz viewport, therefore when compiz is the active window manager, many GNOME applets that relate to windows and desktops are subject to lose functionalities, unless GNOME decide to make libwnck "interoperable" with compiz.

Some work has been done on this already, but I think that GNOME currently put more work on GNOME 3 than to fix these issues. Libwnck is, AFAIK, in complete rewriting process.