[compiz] possible workspacehandling bug

[Mike Dransfield]

Ravi Pinjala wrote:
> I've seen something similar, where windows can get arbitrarily moved 
> around as you rotate, even off the top or bottom edge of the desktop. 
> Maybe it could be the same bug?
>
> --Ravi
>
> Daniel Johansson wrote:
>
>> Hello, first of all I would like to thank everyone for the effort put 
>> into the project.
>>
>> I have found a quite peculiar behavior when using Xgl/compiz.
>> Sometimes my windows disappear, if i use ctrl+alt+shift+left/right i 
>> can end up in an empty desktop and if I keep holding ctrl+alt+shift 
>> and move back to the previous workspace the window moves back just as 
>> if it had been moved previously. Also, if I move between workspaces 
>> applications can disappear, I can see them in expose-mode and the 
>> processes are running as they should, but when I click on the 
>> application it zooms to the workspace where the application should 
>> be.. but it's not there, not on the taskbar and not in the 
>> application switcher. They come back after an arbitrary number of 
>> rotates though, most of the time it's somewhere around 10 complete 
>> rotations (ctrl+alt+shift+left 40 times) .. it could be that i have 
>> missed some config-parameter but honestly, I have no idea what that 
>> could be. It seems like there is some inconsistency between the way 
>> gnome handles workspaces and the way compiz handles them. I've tried 
>> searching for similar bugs but i haven't found anything.
>> The two programs that show this behavior most are Firefox (both 1.5 
>> and 2.0), and OpenOffice.
>> I'm running ubuntu edgy with Xgl/compiz gnome (I encountered the 
>> behavior on ubuntu dapper too).


This (if I remember right) is a bug that was introduced in beryl when 
the plane
patches were applied, I think the short term solution is to change the 
vertical size
to 2, upgrading to beryl might help.  This doesn't seem to happen with 
compiz.