I'll open a ticket as soon as I recall my login information :-( My feeling was that this behaviour is relatively recent, so I did some more experimenting. When I downgrade the client to 0.7.8, I no longer see this problem, and new windows always appear in the current desktop.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Antoine Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > On 02/13/2013 10:40 PM, Douglas Doole wrote: > > xpra seems to get a little confused when used on a system with multiple > > desktops and xpra managed windows on more than one desktop. (I have seen > > this behaviour on all 0.8.* builds.) > > > > For example: > > On desktop 2: > > start xpra managed terminal (for reference, call it term2) > > start gvim from term2 - appears on desktop #2 > > Switch to desktop 3: > > start xpra managed terminal (term3) - appears on desktop #2 (!) > I don't understand why it would do that.. Maybe I am missing a piece of > the puzzle. > If this is a brand new application window, the workspace should be unset. > > move term3 to desktop #3 > > start gvim from term3 - appears on desktop #3 > > Switch to desktop 2: > > click on term2 to bring it to foreground > > start gvim from term2 - appears in desktop #3 (!) > > start gvim (again) from term2 - appears in desktop #2 > > Switch to desktop 3: > > move term3 (which also brings it to foreground) > > start gvim from term3 - appears in desktop #3 > > > > It seems that xpra isn't aware of desktop changes until something causes > a > > change in window state. > That's correct, and I'm not sure what can be done to change that. We > just aren't notified of anything by the window manager on the client. > Or maybe we are just mixing the workspace mappings for all the windows. > I would have to test this for myself to know for sure, can you please > file a ticket so I don't forget? > > Antoine > _______________________________________________ > shifter-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users > -- -- Doug Doole aibohphobia - The irrational fear of palindromes _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
