Trouble window list on dual monitor

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 May 2011 21:40, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> > 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.
>
> Eh? Oh yes there is!
>
> Are you perhaps looking at the wrong dialog box?
>
> I have just rebooted into Linux Mint Debian Edition to check. GNOME
> Panel 2.30.2.
>
> It's been much the same for many years, though - more or less since
> Ubuntu first came out, IIRC. All GNOME 2 distros have the same dialog,
> AFAIK.
>
> You need to right-click *on the handle of the window-list itself*,
> which is immediately to the left of the window buttons for any open
> windows you have visible. Failing that, if there is abundant blank
> space (few or no open windows), a right-click *on the window list
> region of the panel* should do.
>
> From the context menu, pick "Preferences".
>
> The dialog is entitled "Window List Preferences". It has 3 groups of
> settings:
>
> Window List Content
>  (*) Show windows from current workspace
>  ( ) Show windows from all workspaces
>
> Window Grouping
>  (*) Never group windows
>  ( ) Group windows when space is limited
>  ( ) Always group windows
>
> Restoring minimised windows *NB Greyed out for me*
>  (*) Restore to current workspace
>  ( ) Restore to native workspace
>
> [Help] [Close]
>
> I have represented radio buttons (i.e. only 1 permissible choice at a
> time) with empty brackets, "( )", and text action buttons with square
> brackets, [Like this]. I've shown my selections with an asterisk.
>
>
You are 100% right.  Thanks.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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