All open windows are showing in all work spaces

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k357k9
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All open windows are showing in all work spaces

#1 Post by k357k9 »

This is a brand new install from June ISO on metal and this seems to be the only glitch.
There are 4 work spaces and all show all open windows all the time.
I never saw XFCE do this. KDE has a setting to control this.
Is there a special setting for MX?

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Re: All open windows are showing in all work spaces

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k357k9 wrote: Mon Jun 18, 2018 12:42 pm This is a brand new install from June ISO on metal and this seems to be the only glitch.
There are 4 work spaces and all show all open windows all the time.
I never saw XFCE do this. KDE has a setting to control this.
Is there a special setting for MX?
Well, within my brand-new installed MX-17.1_June I do have only 2 default workspaces and I do see only the opened application window within one workspace. But if you right-click on the individual icon on the panel you can select "Show always", which means show within all workspaces ...
...which indicates to me, you might have a bit tweaked to much already
your brand-new installation.
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Re: All open windows are showing in all work spaces

#3 Post by k357k9 »

Yes, I did increase the count to 4 from 2 work spaces, but that should not affect anything.
And, I changed that visible and always settings, too.
Let me play around with it some more.

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#4 Post by chrispop99 »

If I'm understanding your problem correctly, right-click the panel, select Panel Preferences>Items>Window Buttons>Edit icon. In the Filtering section, un-check Show windows from all workspaces or viewports.

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#5 Post by k357k9 »

Thanks Chris. That setting is well hidden.

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#6 Post by Shaddy »

Thanks Chris, that helped me too :) , I pasted your answer in this thread viewtopic.php?f=94&t=61600&p=610399#p610399

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