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Cannot configure more than one pagers for a dual monitor setup
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED
Product:
Xfce4-panel
Component:
Workspace Switcher

Comments

Description Christoph Wickert editbugs 2010-07-16 20:21:31 CEST
Forwarded from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613515


Description of problem:
For a dual monitor setup, its not possible to configure two pagers.

I have a dual monitor setup with xfce on F13. I would like to have a workspace
switcher on either of my screens. I have a  panel at the bottom of my primary
screen with a workspace switcher applet, and I have another panel on my second
screen. I have both the applets set to the 2 row view.

Every time I log out or restart the panel rather, the workspace switcher on my
second screen defaults back to the default one row setup, even though I have
both of them setup as two rows. Right clicking the faulty applet and bringing
up the properties dialogue shows me, its correctly set to 2. However changing
the number has no effect on it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xfce4-panel-4.6.4-1.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.add a pager on one panel, and configure as you wish. (e.g. 2 rows)
2.add another pager with the same configuration.
3.log out log back in or restart the panel from the run dialogue with
"xfce4-panel -r"
4.the 2nd pager defaults back to the default 1 row setup.

Actual results:
on a new login, or restarting the panel it doesn't preserve the row settings
for the 2nd pager

Expected results:
it should preserve the settings for both of the pagers.

Additional info:
Only thing that works is to remove the 2nd pager and add it again. When I add
it, it shows up as 2 rows, but the properties dialogue still shows 1 row. I
change it to 2 before closing. On logging out, its again back to the default
one row.

I don't know whether this is relevant or not, I didn't notice this before since
I bought the second monitor recently. So when F13 was installed there was one
monitor, and the 2nd monitor is a later addition.
Comment 1 Christoph Wickert editbugs 2010-07-16 20:24:29 CEST
Created attachment 3030 
rc file of first pager
Comment 2 Christoph Wickert editbugs 2010-07-16 20:24:50 CEST
Created attachment 3031 
rc file of second pager
Comment 3 Christoph Wickert editbugs 2010-07-16 20:25:43 CEST
Created attachment 3032 
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-desktop.xml file
Comment 4 Christoph Wickert editbugs 2010-07-16 20:26:11 CEST
Created attachment 3033 
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml file
Comment 5 Nick Schermer editbugs 2010-11-20 12:26:33 CET
Yeah I just figured this out: it is because the number of rows and orientation of the pager also change the workspace layout of the screen (?). Filed a bug for it.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635341

So basically only 1 pager will work on each screen. However the 4.7 pager also has a button mode (no miniature view), which works fine with different number of rows).
Comment 6 Nick Schermer editbugs 2010-11-20 12:34:39 CET
Added a small terminal warning for this in 61f636a.
Comment 7 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2011-05-24 12:02:15 CEST
Still present in Fedora 15 with xfce4-panel-4.8.3-2.fc15.x86_64.
Comment 8 Simon Steinbeiss editbugs 2019-08-19 02:03:19 CEST
*** Bug 11831 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-28 01:38:01 CEST
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Bug #6555

Reported by:
Christoph Wickert
Reported on: 2010-07-16
Last modified on: 2020-05-28
Duplicates (1):
  • 11831 Workspace switcher starting up with wrong number of rows

People

Assignee:
Nick Schermer
CC List:
3 users

Version

Attachments

rc file of first pager (40 bytes, text/plain)
2010-07-16 20:24 CEST , Christoph Wickert
no flags
rc file of second pager (40 bytes, text/plain)
2010-07-16 20:24 CEST , Christoph Wickert
no flags
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-desktop.xml file (1.77 KB, text/xml)
2010-07-16 20:25 CEST , Christoph Wickert
no flags
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml file (4.56 KB, text/xml)
2010-07-16 20:26 CEST , Christoph Wickert
no flags

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