Bug#597911: Workspace switcher broken for users of Xmonad

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 25.09.2010, 19:33 -0400 schrieb Denis Laxalde:
> Joachim Breitner a écrit :
> > Ah, interesting: When I move the panel from the left edge to the top
> > edge, the workspaces become visibile. When I move the panel back to
> > the left edge, they stay visible, but are disformed: The workspace
> > switcher is as wide as my panel (32px), as high as it was when the
> > panel was horizontal (also 32px) and the individual workspaces are
> > arranged horizontally as very thin vertical bars.
> > 
> > Killing gnome-panel goes back to a single black dot.
> > 
> > Can you check if the problem occurs for you with a vertical panel?
> 
> I confirm, there are indeed some problems with vertical panels, even
> with metacity as a window manager. The workspace switcher is barely
> usable (thin vertical bars). Then, if I kill gnome-panel (or restart the
> session), the workspace switcher just disappears from the screen
> (1280x800). Setting the panel back to horizontal mode makes it appear
> again...

thanks for the confirmation. I think vertical panels are relatively
common (compared to Xmonad usage :-)) and this bug is a severe problem
for such users. Dear gnome-panel maintainers, please consider raising
the severity of this bug before 2.30.2-2 migrates to testing.

I took the liberty to merge this with the duplicate
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598122 and linked to
the upstream report https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630642


Thanks,
Joachim

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