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[Doug McMahon <826089@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It doesn't appear Gnome is going to fix this anytime soon which may be too bad for some unity-2d users
The key is currently a  simple way to adjust the number of Ws's unity-2d will use, intended or otherwise

Note on gnome bug report - Gs set the num value to however many
workspaces are open in Gs when exiting, typically 1, but not limited to
that by any means

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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 GNOME Shell:
  New
Status in Unity 2D:
  Confirmed
Status in “gnome-shell” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
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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