desktop switcher

Israel israeldahl at gmail.com
Fri Jan 24 13:11:58 UTC 2014


Hurray!

On 01/24/2014 03:42 AM, W.J.Heeringa wrote:
> /Any customization I have done with my system is totally by GUI 
> means.  The one I know of, is that I made the panel a bit higher than 
> normal (32 pixels). /
>
> Thanks, this is in any case an improvement! The desktops are shown in 
> the panel now. It is still not perfect, sometimes a white (but 
> smaller) bar is drawn over them.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wilbert
>
>
> On 23-01-14, *Aere Greenway * <Aere at Dvorak-Keyboards.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/23/2014 06:23 AM, W.J.Heeringa wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I upgraded from Lubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 by performing the following 
>>> command:
>>>
>>> sudo do-release-upgrade -d
>>>
>>> This affected also the desktop switcher (I hope this is the right 
>>> term), see the pictures attached. I used to have eight desktops as 
>>> can be seen in the picture.
>>>
>>> However, when starting an application, the desktop switcher 
>>> completely disappears. In Lubuntu 13.04 and earlier the desktop 
>>> switcher was permanently visible.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how I can achieve having the desktop switcher 
>>> permantly visible in Lubuntu 13.10 as well?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Wilbert
>>>
>>>
>> Wilbert:
>>
>> I have seen something similar with my Lubuntu 13.10 system.
>>
>> Any customization I have done with my system is totally by GUI 
>> means.  The one I know of, is that I made the panel a bit higher than 
>> normal (32 pixels).  I don't use command-line means of customization, 
>> because in my experience, I forget how to do it, so it doesn't get 
>> done on the next release.
>>
>> Normally, the two desktops I have appear in the task-bar (panel) 
>> switcher, and work without any problems.
>>
>> But sometimes, one (or both of them) get covered by the taskbar 
>> background.
>>
>> I recognized it because I have configured my panel to be a bit larger 
>> (in the vertical dimension) than the default, and the panel 
>> background that obscures it doesn't go all the way to the bottom (it 
>> seems to assume a normal-height panel).
>>
>> I don't know what triggers the problem.  It just occasionally 'happens'.
>>
>> I can make it go away by clicking on any desktop panel entries that 
>> are obscured.
>>
>> -- 
>> Sincerely,
>> Aere
>>
>
>
> Hmmm... I am not sure where to go from here....
> I am running 14.04, and I always do a fresh install... so I have never 
> experienced this issue...
> Of course I keep my /home in a separate partition and have had 
> problems that can be fixed by moving the configurations.... Have you 
> checked to see if anyone has reported this bug (on launchpad, or 
> elsewhere)?
> Maybe someone else will have something to add here...
> But, I should ask are you using other DE(like xfce, or unity, kde, 
> etc..) as well as LXDE(Lubuntu-desktop)?
>
> When you restarted lightdm, I should have mentioned (sorry, I forgot) 
> that you should drop to a tty to do it (Ctrl + Alt + F1) so the error 
> you saw was probably related to doing that from a terminal...  
> sometimes I forget people don't use the terminal and tty as often as I 
> do, and may not naturally go to a tty for those kinds of commands... I 
> hope I will remember that next time :)
>
> The only other off-the-wall thought I have is that it could be 
> something in gconf/dconf... but that is just a shot in the dark, as it 
> seems to me that it is either a bug in the code, a conflicting old 
> config file, or some weird artifact from 13.04...
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Regards

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