Trouble window list on dual monitor

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 04:21:46PM -0600, drew einhorn wrote:
> I have a netbook with a tiny screen and a nice big external display.  They
> are successfully running gnome in a dual monitor configuration on an up to
> date Maverick install.
> 
> I have a Window List applet running in a panel at the top of the netbook
> screen.  If I open a new window on the netbook, it appear in the window it
> appears in the window list applet as expected.  But if I drag the window to
> the big screen.  It disappears from the window list.  And if I minimize a
> window on the big screen, then it's lost forever, and I have not been able
> to recover it.  If I reboot.  Sometimes I briefly see the lost window as the
> system is shutting down.

This is very weird -- are you sure you don't have a second GNOME panel
with a second window list applet on the external screen?

I've been using dual-head configurations extensively, and I've observed
this behaviour:

 * when you have only one window list applet, it shows windows from both
   screens

 * when you have two window list applets -- one on each screen -- they
   each show windows of their respective screens.

Marius Gedminas
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