Problem of lost desktops

[Doug-11]

I usually run 6 desktops in Gnome under 2008.1, but have somehow managed
to lose all except one; and I can't find any way of re-setting 'multiple
desktops' in MCC.
How do I do this?

(4 under KDE are still present)

Doug

[Doug-11]

Doug wrote:
> I usually run 6 desktops in Gnome under 2008.1, but have somehow
> managed to lose all except one; and I can't find any way of re-setting
> 'multiple desktops' in MCC.
> How do I do this?
>
> (4 under KDE are still present)
>
> Doug
>
Sorry, should have said workspaces.

The problem is somewhat worse than this.
If I right-click on the title bar of a window all the 6 workspaces are
listed and I can send it to workspace 6, for example.
But Gnome-panel shows only 1 workspace, so it's disappeared
irretrievably. Nothing on any other workspace is retrievable.

Doug

[Greg Harris-8]

On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:54:04 +0100
Doug <doug_bainbridge@...> wrote:

> Doug wrote:
> > I usually run 6 desktops in Gnome under 2008.1, but have somehow
> > managed to lose all except one; and I can't find any way of
> > re-setting 'multiple desktops' in MCC.
> > How do I do this?
> >
> > (4 under KDE are still present)
> >
> > Doug
> >
> Sorry, should have said workspaces.
>
> The problem is somewhat worse than this.
> If I right-click on the title bar of a window all the 6 workspaces
> are listed and I can send it to workspace 6, for example.
> But Gnome-panel shows only 1 workspace, so it's disappeared
> irretrievably. Nothing on any other workspace is retrievable.
>
> Doug

It should be configurable from the (right-click) preferences for the
"Workspace Switcher" panel applet.

[Doug-11]

Greg Harris wrote:

> On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:54:04 +0100
> Doug <doug_bainbridge@...> wrote:
>
>  
>> Doug wrote:
>>    
>>> I usually run 6 desktops in Gnome under 2008.1, but have somehow
>>> managed to lose all except one; and I can't find any way of
>>> re-setting 'multiple desktops' in MCC.
>>> How do I do this?
>>>
>>> (4 under KDE are still present)
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>>      
>> Sorry, should have said workspaces.
>>
>> The problem is somewhat worse than this.
>> If I right-click on the title bar of a window all the 6 workspaces
>> are listed and I can send it to workspace 6, for example.
>> But Gnome-panel shows only 1 workspace, so it's disappeared
>> irretrievably. Nothing on any other workspace is retrievable.
>>
>> Doug
>>    
>
> It should be configurable from the (right-click) preferences for the
> "Workspace Switcher" panel applet.
>  

Greg, you've pinpointed the problem - the "Workspace Switcher" panel
applet had got deleted by accident..

Re-installed; all's well again.

Thanks,

Doug