Compiz Fusion and Workspace Switcher

[David Vincent]

Davide Corio wrote:
> Hi *,
> it seems impossible to move applications through the workspace switcher
> applet with desktop effects enabled.
> 
> Is there a workaround?

Is your machine upgraded or a fresh gutsy install?  On one of mine which 
was upgraded from Feisty and had Beryl installed on it I found I had 
four workspaces with Compiz which were disassociated from the four 
workspaces of my Gnome desktop.  When I would right-click on a window in 
the taskbar and send it to workspace three it would go there but there 
was no way for me to get it back.  I had to turn of desktop effects 
before I could get control of that window again.

Switching workspaces in Compiz seemed to switch between four workspaces 
on my primary Gnome workspace.

(I've probably murdered some terms in there, I hope that is clear to you.)

Eventually I found the problem, it was somewhere in the advanced Compiz 
settings.  I'm not near that machine right now but if this sounds like 
your issue I can take a peek today and post back.

-d