Panel disappears when switching workspace

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1

Config :

  • Qubes 4.1 uptodate
  • devilspie2 installed
  • 5 workspaces (event with 2)

Problem :

  • When switching with mouse wheel or click on/to another workspace than the last one, the panel does not show anymore.
  • Only going to the last workspace again shows the panel again, as if the panel(s) were only connected to one fixed workspace.

Any idea on how to resolve that ?

2

That happened to me too. Basically I had some lua code in my devilspie2 config to assign windows to workspaces. One day I had the genius idea that I wanted all windows that I hadn’t otherwise assigned to default to a specific workspace.

Long story short: my code ended up assigning the panel (which is a window) to a specific workspace. I bet that’s what’s happening for you too.

If you don’t see it, post your devilspie2 lua code.

3

Thank you. My code is:

qube = get_window_property("_QUBES_VMNAME");
ws = 0;

if qube == "personal" then
   ws = 1
elseif qube == "work" then
   ws = 2
elseif qube == "vault" then
   ws = 3
elseif qube == "untrusted" then
   ws = 4
elseif qube == "" then
   ws = 5
end

if ws > 0 then
  set_window_workspace(ws);
end
4

If I had to guess…you might want to surround the above with a test to see if the window property exists first and skip the whole block if not?

B

5

That catches all dom0 windows and assigns them to workspace 5.

I’d recommend reading this article and then use the debug print function along with --debug to understand how to identify the panel and exclude it from the rule(s).

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6

The link to “this article” doesn’t appear to actually go anywhere.

7

Sorry, here is the link: