Workspace Switcher: cannot add workspaces

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:31:24 -0500, Chris Stankevitz  
<chrisstankevitz at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> FreeBSD 8.1-RC1, GNOME 2.30.0
>
> Right-click Workspace Switcher Applet | Preferences | Number of  
> workspaces
>
> In this box I specify a number that is greater than 1.  For example,  
> "9".  Then I click "Close" (there is no OK or APPLY button).  The number  
> of workspaces does not change.  Furthermore, when I go back into the  
> preferences window, the "Number of workspaces" is back to 1.
>
> Q1: How do I fix this?
> Q2: How can I troubleshoot where in the process the problem is?

I can't reproduce all of your problem. It sounds like you have an  
permission issue or owner of ~/.* folders/files. Do the ~/.* have the  
correct ownership?

Try to look in the ~/.xsession-errors for any error outputs.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Thank you,
>
> Chris


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