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[Doug McMahon <826089@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know unity-2d that well, just started using but -  
It appears that 2d defaults to 4 ws's and doesn't need/create that gconf key but will use it if  it happens to be there

On the other hand Gs creates the key and sets the value based on active ws's when logging out, but does not actually use the key/value when logging back in
Ex. if one logs out of Gs with 3 active ws's then the value is set to 3. When logging back into GS only the default 1 ws is available.
Meanwhile 2d will show 3
So the fault seems to lie with Gs for writing a value to a key it doesn't appear to actually use.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/826089

Title:
  gnome-shell writes to ~/.gconf/apps/metacity/general & affects
  Workspaces shown in unity-2d

Status in Unity 2D:
  Confirmed
Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “unity-2d” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I mainly use unity (3d) but have noticed that at some point when trying unity-2d I can only see/access 1 workspace from "Workspaces"
  It turns out that if one logs into gnome-shell, when exiting it writes to  - ~/.gconf/apps/metacity/general
  Typically it would do this, but the value used is based on workspaces open in GS when exiting
  <entry name="num_workspaces" mtime="1313702896" type="int" value="1"/>

  In the above case when logging into unity-2d only 1 workspace will be
  shown

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: unity-2d 4.0.0-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Aug 13 22:32:01 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110731)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: unity-2d
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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