Trouble window list on dual monitor

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Tarun Khanna <tarunkhanna at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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> Some of this seems surreal to me -- but  I'm on Lucid LTS, so maybe that's
why I don't see anything about "Show windows from all workspaces" in any
properties dialopg, but I do in fact see all windows (minimized or not) in
the bottom panel on the primary monitor.  I also have a workspace switcher
there that shows both screens of each worklspace.  This is all Gnome.

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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