[TriLUG] "new" Gnome question

[Paul McLanahan]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
> I am finding that Firefox is leaping all over the workspaces whenever a link is clicked somewhere else.  What I was used to in the past was that if I clicked on a link in Thunderbird or anywhere else, it would open a new tab ( that's the way that I have Firefox configured ) in Firefox, but FF would stay in the workspace where it was put.
>
> The "window" settings say "Only on This Workspace", but that seems to be a flexible concept in this version of Gnome.

Is Compiz enabled? If you see any window transparency or animations
then it probably is. It takes over a lot of the window management like
that, and is increasingly enabled by default on supported hardware in
newer distros. It might be a good place to start looking.

hth,

Paul