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[Bug 662542] Re: Applications are launched in active workspace, even if we switch while they load

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Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:20:52 -0000
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[Expired for metacity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
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** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Applications are launched in active workspace, even if we switch while
  they load

Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: metacity

  Hello,
  (Im not sure it's a Metacity bug, sorry if it isn't)
  I'm running Ubutu 10.04, but this was already happening before. Also, i wasn't sure it was a bug, thinking that it just hadn't be thought about, but an admin in brainstorm told me it was.
  If we launch an application, and then switch to another workspace, when the application is loaded, it will open in the active workspace, and not in the one we launched it from.
  This behaviour disable the ability to prepare all the workspace in one shot, without having to wait for the applications to show up.
  So we now have to launch them all (like 1 mail client, 1 IDE, 1 firefox, and 1 ftp client in my case) at first, wait for them all to be loaded, and then move them to the workspace we want them to go.
  It would be better to be able to :
  - launch the first application (like the mail client in my example)
  - switch to the second workspace and launch the second application (the IDE)
  - switch to the third WS and launch the third app (Firefox)
  - etc...
  This way, we wouldn't have to wait for the apps to be fully loaded to put them into a specific workspace, and they would neither steal the focus on the active workspace when they are fully loaded.

  Thanks
  Brice Parent

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: metacity 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Oct 18 09:41:17 2010
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=fr_FR.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: metacity

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