I've found a way around this. I have absolutely no idea why it's
working. It's based entirely on trial and error and hunches. But it may
be useful to others.
>From reading other bug reports I kept noticing references to metacity. I tried
>uninstalling and reinstalling that with no effect. By find-ing and grep-ing I
>found the file
~/.gconf/apps/metacity/workspace_names/%gconf.xml
and noticed that it was mostly unaffected by tinkering with workspace
preferences on the desktop. Sometimes it changed, sometimes it didn't. I
couldn't see a pattern. I tried editing it manually and restarting and
it seemed to be ignored.
So I did a "find ~ -exec grep 'Workspace 1' {} \;" from my home
directory and found
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml
contained the workspace names. I checked that I was running gdm as my
window manager and there were no processes that looked like they had any
obvious connection to xfce desktop. But I have run it in the past when I
was investigating trying to use a more lightweight window manager so I
guess it's assimilated in there somewhere.
Put briefly, by editing xfce-perchannel-xml directly I saw the changes
partially reflected in the desktop after restart. Not fully. There were
problems with the number of workspaces. After a bit more digging I
discovered that by running:
xfwm4-workspace-settings
from the command line I could adjust the workspace settings, and they
were retained after a restart.
I guess that somewhere in my configuration I have a reference to the
xfce4 workspace config file. I don't have time to try and track it down
right now.
I hope this is useful to anyone else who may have similar workspace and
would be interested to know if it also solves the problem.
Dougie
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