1 Desktop != 4 Desktops

[sirvitude]

OK, I'm not sure what I did, but in messing with Compiz' configuration, I've somehow managed to disable all desktops other than the one I'm working with. Both my taskbar and Compiz say I have 4 desktops enabled, but I cannot switch them and pressing Super+E only shows 1 desktop. If anybody can, please help me, I'm using the current beta of Kubuntu Gutsy.

[crdlb]

Compiz uses viewports, not desktops, so you should set number of desktops to 1, and horizontal virtual size to 4 (or whatever you want).

[sirvitude]

That works!!! Thank you!

[AmyRose]

I've never gotten KDE's pager applet to work with Compiz myself...

I'm curious about what you mean by the taskbar showing it. My taskbar always shows all windows from all the viewports, and I can't change this behavior.

[sirvitude]

With the pager applet, change the number of desktops to just 1; then, in Compiz' configuration, click on the 'General compiz options' button, then the 'Desktop Size' tab and change the 'Horizontal Virtual Size' slider to the number of desktops you want, and leave the 'Number of Desktops' and 'Vertical Virtual Size' at 1.

[hyperair]

For KDE you might have to install the kicker-kde package from Trevino's repository to get it working. I know I had to.

[schoeggu]

for me it works with the KDE pager applet if i set it to 4 worskspaces (so i see 16 desktops in the pager) and after that set it to 1 (so i see 4 desktops and everything works) (in the kde settings not ccsm (rightklick on desktop->configure workspace (or something, i'm not sure))).

but it's not a good solution, because i have to do this after every restart of kde.
Trevino's kicker-kde package is only for ubuntu, isn't it? is there a way to fix the problem for openSuSE?

[big_gie]

I've never gotten KDE's pager applet to work with Compiz myself...
I think compiz needs to be runnning BEFORE kicker kick's in :) Have you tried setting the environment variable KDEWM to compiz?
On ArchLinux, I created that file :
/etc/profile.d/compiz.sh
with the content :
#!/bin/bash
export KDEWM="/usr/bin/fusion-icon"
Then make sure it's executable:
chmod +x /etc/profile.d/compiz.sh

With this, each desktop has it's own windows. When I'm on desktop 2, the pager display the window from desktop 1 only on the pager of desktop 1...