Workspace problem

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 07:03, James wrote:

> Here is the contents of my workspaces.xml
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE mcs-option SYSTEM "mcs-option.dtd">
> <mcs-option>
> <option name="Xfwm/WorkspaceCount" type="int"
> value="5"/>
> <option name="names" type="string"
> value="1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12;13;
> 14;15;16;17;18;19;20;21;22"/>
> </mcs-option>
> 
> and after restarting, via startx which my
> .Xclients-default says startxfce4. I am somehow
> getting some sort of system default setting that wont
> change? I see the value=5 above but still only four.
> Shouldnt the workspaces increase instantly when
> changing the value thru the settings tool?
> 
> James

Ok - seems that there are a few too many listed - so you can change the:

<option name="count" type="int" value="5"/>

to something like

<option name="count" type="int" value="6"/>

...and where is lists:
<option name="names" type="string" value="1;2;3;4;5;6(and on)"/>

just change that to:

<option name="names" type="string" value="1;2;3;4;5;6"/>

...save the file, restart XFCE4 - it would appear that the
workspaces.xml is slightly mucked up - where the value="5" does not
equal the "names" value which shows 22 workspaces...

Make sense?

stephen kuhn - owner
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