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Martin Hope
wheeeee
Asked: 2018-04-01 17:23:56 +0800 CST
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Say I have two Chrome windows open like this:

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It seems that the most recently used window always appears on top. In other words, the "Apply Digital Signatures" was the window I had open last. If I were to switch to the window showing the new tab, then the order in which the windows are displayed in the task bar suddenly changes.

Is there a way to keep them from shuffling around? I'd like to be able to order them however I want, like tabs in a web browser. (I'd also like to put them across different workspaces.)

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Martin Hope
wheeeee
Asked: 2018-03-23 19:13:52 +0800 CST
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I'm new to Ubuntu and I really don't know how workspaces work. I'm using a laptop hooked up to a desktop monitor. My laptop runs Ubuntu 17.10

I have the gnome tweak tool installed. (I think. There's some kind of app that's just called "Tweaks" and I'm not too sure.)

I see several options under the workspaces tab, but I'm not too sure what some of them do.

There's one called "Workspaces on Primary Display Only. Additional displays are treated as independent workspaces".

  • Does that mean my primary display, say my laptop monitor, is the only one that can use workspaces? Or does it mean that my laptop monitor and my desktop monitor are different workspaces?
  • Can my laptop and desktop access the same workspaces? Say I was using my laptop separately with 4 workspaces, then decided to connect the desktop monitor. Can I view my current workspaces on the desktop monitor? How do I do that? The usual keyboard shortcuts don't seem to work when I have my mouse on the desktop monitor.

"Workspaces Span Displays. The current workspace includes additional displays."

  • It seems that regardless of whether I have this option checked or not, I can still drag windows between my laptop and desktop monitor. When I change workspaces, whatever I have open on the desktop monitor also disappears, as if it were just an extension of the workspace I was using previously with the laptop. What's the point of this option?

What I want to be able to do is keep the 4 workspaces I usually use, and simply use the desktop monitor to view a different workspace than the one on my laptop. I want to be able to freely set any of my monitors to view any of my workspaces. How do I do this?

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Martin Hope
wheeeee
Asked: 2018-03-12 23:33:51 +0800 CST
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I have a laptop running Ubuntu 17.10 and a HP Deskjet 2540 printer/scanner. I sent a job to it that wouldn't print, so I tried to cancel it by going to Settings > Devices > Printers

Screenshot 1

I click on the 1 Job button and bring up the list of active jobs. But from this page, the Clear All and x for the individual job don't work. They register being clicked on but the job doesn't disappear. Completely restarting my laptop doesn't get rid of the job either.

Screenshot 2

I did find this site: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HpAllInOne. I entered sudo hp-check -r into the terminal and made sure everything required was installed. It's a bit long to paste everything, but here's the end of the output message to that command:

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| SUMMARY |
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Missing Required Dependencies
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None

Missing Optional Dependencies
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error: 'gtk2-engines-pixbuf' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'xsane' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'python3-notify2' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'python3-dbus.mainloop.qt' package is missing/incompatible

Total Errors: 3
Total Warnings: 1

Done.
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Martin Hope
wheeeee
Asked: 2018-02-18 18:28:17 +0800 CST
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I'm using Ubuntu 17.10 and this is my first time using Linux.

I'm trying to drag a window into another workspace but it's not working. I'm following the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/shell-workspaces-movewindow.html

Once I'm inside the activity page,

  • If I hover over the windows (entire left 3/4 of the screen), the workspace selector on the right is closed.
  • If I hover over the right edge of the screen, the workspace selector slides out and I can see all of my workspaces.
  • When I try to drag a window from the left to the workspace selector on the right, the workspace selector will close and won't let me drop a window into a specific workspace. In other words, steps 3 & 4 from the link doesn't work when I'm dragging a window.

Is this normal behavior? If so, how do I manually drag and drop a window to a workspace?

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