Xfce drop-down terminal stays on previous workspace

[Miro Hrončok]

Hey,

I think that my xfce4-terminal dropdown started to act weirdly.

1. drop down (by a keyboard shortcut)
  2. move to a different workspace (by a keyboard shortcut)

Before: the drop down terminal "stays with you"

Now: the drop down terminal stays on previous workspace, invoking the drop down 
keyboard shortcut does nothing, you need to go back to the previous worksapce, 
roll up, move to a new workspace, drop down.

Has anybody noticed similar behavior change? Is it a regression or is this 
somewhat configurable?

[Mukundan Ragavan]

On 6/27/19 2:41 PM, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I think that my xfce4-terminal dropdown started to act weirdly.
>
> 1. drop down (by a keyboard shortcut)
>  2. move to a different workspace (by a keyboard shortcut)
>
> Before: the drop down terminal "stays with you"
>
> Now: the drop down terminal stays on previous workspace, invoking the
> drop down keyboard shortcut does nothing, you need to go back to the
> previous worksapce, roll up, move to a new workspace, drop down.
>
> Has anybody noticed similar behavior change? Is it a regression or is
> this somewhat configurable?

I do not see this. I tried two appraoches

(1) Leave the drop-down terminal open and switch workspace (either by
rolling mouse wheel or keyboard shortcut).

The drop-down follows me.

(2) I exited the drop-down terminal and re-opened in a new workspace.
Followed me to the new workspace.

Since I have a multi-monitor setup, I did an additional check. I
activated "Move to monitor with pointer". Drop-down terminal does follow
the mouse pointer to different monitor(s).

As far as I can tell, there does not seem to be an option to enforce
what you are observing ...

Any inkling on what could have caused this? Can you reproduce this on a
different system perhaps?

[Miro Hrončok]

On 28. 06. 19 0:06, Mukundan Ragavan wrote:
> On 6/27/19 2:41 PM, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I think that my xfce4-terminal dropdown started to act weirdly.
> >
> > 1. drop down (by a keyboard shortcut)
> >   2. move to a different workspace (by a keyboard shortcut)
> >
> > Before: the drop down terminal "stays with you"
> >
> > Now: the drop down terminal stays on previous workspace, invoking the
> > drop down keyboard shortcut does nothing, you need to go back to the
> > previous worksapce, roll up, move to a new workspace, drop down.
> >
> > Has anybody noticed similar behavior change? Is it a regression or is
> > this somewhat configurable?
>
> I do not see this. I tried two appraoches
>
> (1) Leave the drop-down terminal open and switch workspace (either by
> rolling mouse wheel or keyboard shortcut).
>
> The drop-down follows me.
>
> (2) I exited the drop-down terminal and re-opened in a new workspace.
> Followed me to the new workspace.
>
> Since I have a multi-monitor setup, I did an additional check. I
> activated "Move to monitor with pointer". Drop-down terminal does follow
> the mouse pointer to different monitor(s).
>
> As far as I can tell, there does not seem to be an option to enforce
> what you are observing ...
>
> Any inkling on what could have caused this? Can you reproduce this on a
> different system perhaps?

It's gone. Apparently the terminal have seen my message and started to behave :D

Thanks anyway, I'll report back if this ever comes back.