Re: icewm anomaly after bullseye upgrade

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From	Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de>
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Subject	Re: icewm anomaly after bullseye upgrade
Date	Thu, 02 Sep 2021 00:10:01 +0200
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Hi,

On Wed, 1 Sep 2021 15:17:11 -0400 (EDT)
Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> wrote:

(...)
> I have never had a situation wherein the number of workspaces in 
> the taskbar was _not_ determined by the contents of the line:
> 
> WorkspaceNames= " Web ", " Term ", " VNC ", etc.

seems to work as usual here.

> 
> in ~/.icewm/preferences. The pkgs now installed are:
> 
> $ dpkg -l |grep icewm
> ii  icewm                                        2.1.2-1 
> amd64        wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window manager
> ii  icewm-common                                 2.1.2-1 
> amd64        wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window manager
> 
> In order to access workspaces not displayed in the taskbar I 
> must have recourse to the Window List Menu button on the extreme 
> left side ot the task bar.
> 
> Thoughts?

What exactly does the line beginning with WorkspaceNames= look like?
What exactly is displayed resp. not displayed in the taskbar?
What is the output of `cat ~/.icewm/preferences | grep -i workspace` ?

Best regards

Michael

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icewm anomaly after bullseye upgrade Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2021-09-01 21:20 +0200
  Re: icewm anomaly after bullseye upgrade Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2021-09-02 00:10 +0200
  Re: icewm anomaly after bullseye upgrade Lotek <lotek07@gmail.com> - 2021-09-02 01:00 +0200

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