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Dell Latitude E6410
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M]
(rev a2)
NVidia proprietary drivers
OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64
KDE 4.7 (I think… whatever is default)
All patches as of yesterday (2012-01-30) morning, MST.
With all of that out there, Disclaimer: I’m not as familiar with KDE as
with Gnome. I have stumbled upon what I am fairly sure is a bug and
while I will report it I am curious if there are ideas for workarounds.
When I setup my system I wanted it to work a little more like my old
Gnome 2.x system did, specifically with four workspaces (desktops)
organized laterally. Why? Because I do. I found how to enable
shortcuts to move between desktops in a relative way (from left to
right) so I have setup Ctrl+Alt+[arrow] (left or right) to move through
them. I renamed the desktops 0, 1, 2, and 3 because I like it that way,
though that’s likely irrelevant. After setting this up I removed the
Desktop pager because I don’t need it and it wastes (imo) panel space.
Voila, everything is bliss.
Logout/Login
In a reproducible way (every time I logout/login) I find that while my
customized shortcuts to move through desktops/workspaces still work (I
can still move to the next/previous desktop) I can only do so between
the current one and one other. I cannot, for example, go from 0 → 1 →
2 → 3 → 0 → 1 as usual… I can only go from 0 → 1 → 0 → 1; it is
wrapping around too soon. Wrapping around is enabled so that’s okay,
but it seems to ignore my other desktops. If I use the default
shortcuts to go directly to a specific desktop (Ctrl+F3 for example)
then I can swap between that one and one other beside it… but only to
one other (and then back and forth, back and forth). So to summarize I
can get to any desktop using Ctrl+F[1-4], and I can even send windows to
any desktop (To Desktop → [choose desktop, as they are all listed
correctly) but I cannot use the Ctrl+Alt keys to switch among all of them.
Clear as mud? Here’s where the bug part comes in. If I go to the
Virtual Desktop pager settings and increase the ‘Number of rows’ to 2,
then put it back down to 1 (I have it set to 1 normally) the entire
problem goes away and my Ctrl+Alt+[arrow] functionality is perfectly
restored until the next time I logout/login. Basically I am doing
nothing other than refreshing the system since I’m changing from 1, to
2, then back to 1, but it seems to be enough. I have not (yet) tried
making other changes to see if it is nothing more than a refresh or if
it has to do with this specific setting. To test this setting, though,
I have tried moving “down” to other desktops but they are not accessible
as far as I can tell. My testing may be off on this one, so I’m open
for any input.
Happy Computing.
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