[winswitch] xpra and multiple desktops

[Douglas Doole]

Ticket #259 opened for this.


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Douglas Doole <dougdoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll open a ticket as soon as I recall my login information :-(
>
> My feeling was that this behaviour is relatively recent, so I did some
> more experimenting. When I downgrade the client to 0.7.8, I no longer see
> this problem, and new windows always appear in the current desktop.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> On 02/13/2013 10:40 PM, Douglas Doole wrote:
>> > xpra seems to get a little confused when used on a system with multiple
>> > desktops and xpra managed windows on more than one desktop. (I have seen
>> > this behaviour on all 0.8.* builds.)
>> >
>> > For example:
>> >    On desktop 2:
>> >       start xpra managed terminal (for reference, call it term2)
>> >       start gvim from term2 - appears on desktop #2
>> >    Switch to desktop 3:
>> >       start xpra managed terminal (term3) - appears on desktop #2 (!)
>> I don't understand why it would do that.. Maybe I am missing a piece of
>> the puzzle.
>> If this is a brand new application window, the workspace should be unset.
>> >       move term3 to desktop #3
>> >       start gvim from term3 - appears on desktop #3
>> >    Switch to desktop 2:
>> >       click on term2 to bring it to foreground
>> >       start gvim from term2 - appears in desktop #3 (!)
>> >       start gvim (again) from term2 - appears in desktop #2
>> >    Switch to desktop 3:
>> >       move term3 (which also brings it to foreground)
>> >       start gvim from term3 - appears in desktop #3
>> >
>> > It seems that xpra isn't aware of desktop changes until something
>> causes a
>> > change in window state.
>> That's correct, and I'm not sure what can be done to change that. We
>> just aren't notified of anything by the window manager on the client.
>> Or maybe we are just mixing the workspace mappings for all the windows.
>> I would have to test this for myself to know for sure, can you please
>> file a ticket so I don't forget?
>>
>> Antoine
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