Hi, I had the same solution when I use external monitor on my Thinkpad. http://gregcor.com/2011/05/07/fix-dual-monitors-in-gnome-3-aka-my-workspaces-are-broken/ had the solution for me. The magic configuration command is: gsettings set org.gnome.shell.overrides workspaces-only-on-primary false All the best, Ognyan