1635787 - Windows are restored in seemingly random workspaces after a restart under Gnome 3

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P3)

Description

[Marios Titas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0

Steps to reproduce:

#372650 introduced a new feature where after restarting firefox, windows are restored to the workspace with the same id as the one that they were originally in.

I think this new behavior does not make sense under Gnome 3 with its default settings, where workspaces are created dynamically; workspaceID=3 will refer to a completely different workspace after e.g. I reboot my computer.

Typically, I have ~6 firefox windows open across different workspaces. Most of those workspaces only have the firefox window in them. When I close firefox, these workspaces are removed by Gnome. If I start firefox again, I have to spend time searching for all the firefox windows that appear in (seemingly) random workspaces.

Comment 1

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

Dynamic workspaces config can be obtained by 'gsettings get org.gnome.mutter dynamic-workspaces'
so we can query it before we restore them.

Comment 2

[Peder Stray]

Does 'xprop -root _NET_DESKTOP_NAMES' return something useful under gnome 3?

Comment 3

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

I tested and that gives me the name of one workspace only. But I'm on Wayland, and that could be related (but I do have two workspaces). I tried opening X-only windows on the second desktop, and that changed nothing.

Comment 4

[Marios Titas]

(In reply to Peder Stray from comment #2)

Does 'xprop -root _NET_DESKTOP_NAMES' return something useful under gnome 3?

I'm on x11 and simply returns "Workspace 1" no matter where I call it from (unless this is the an artifact of gnome-terminal-server running persistently and "Workspace 1" being the place where the first terminal window was created).

Comment 5

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

FWIW, it was Workspace 1 for me too, but translated into my locale. And I did try opening an xterm on the second workspace and that didn't change anything.

Comment 6

[Peder Stray]

Hmm... was hoping it would return something like what it does when i run it under the i3 wm:

_NET_DESKTOP_NAMES(UTF8_STRING) = "1", "2", "3:chat", "4:web", "5", "8"

Comment 7

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

Attachment: Bug 1635787 [Gtk/Linux] Don't use workspace management when running on Gnome dynamic workspaces, r?jhorak

Comment 8

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Because this bug's Severity has not been changed from the default since it was filed, and it's Priority is P3 (Backlog,) indicating it has been triaged, the bug's Severity is being updated to S3 (normal.)

Comment 9

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

try: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=51e2c621d9978c77bd46aa32102dfe41a565d4a7

Comment 10

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/f0c71e1de58c
[Gtk/Linux] Don't use workspace management when running on Gnome dynamic workspaces, r=jhorak

Comment 11

[Natalia Csoregi [:nataliaCs]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f0c71e1de58c