Trouble window list on dual monitor

[Tarun Khanna]

Tarun


On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:

> 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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Have you tried creating a new panel in the external monitor with a window
list applet for that panel?

Another brute force approach is to delete the private gnome directory. That
will reset all panels. I had to do that once. It is pretty innocuous. I
don't remember the exact directory though. It might be one of ~/.gnome or
~/.gnome2 or ~/.gnome2_private.
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