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nightm4re

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Registered: 2005-12-30

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gdm 2.28.0-1 and virtual desktops

Hi,

Recently updated to gdm 2.28.0-1 and it has a whole new look, and is possibly the cause of a new problem.  I run openbox via the openbox session option available in gdm, and I noticed today that my virtual desktops are not what I specified in my rc.xml.  Speaking with the openbox developers, I got some specific information:

On the root window, _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS has already been set at time of openbox startup, and openbox respects that and does not set a new value from its config.  Is this new behavior known/expected?  Any way I can get it to stop doing that?

thanks.

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nightm4re

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Re: gdm 2.28.0-1 and virtual desktops

I've found some bugs on the issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444135
http://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4040

Slightly surprised I haven't encountered it until now.  I may just ditch gdm, but I sortof like using it - for the odd occasion I want a different session, or I use to shutdown/reboot.

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ammon

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Registered: 2008-12-11

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Re: gdm 2.28.0-1 and virtual desktops

Yeah, I know that one.

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16676?st … ect=1&type

Last edited by ammon (2009-10-21 05:47:07)

ammon

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Re: gdm 2.28.0-1 and virtual desktops

Check the bug thread, we found a fix.