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I have a usability question for Unity. When I open various folders with Nautilus and distribute them among the 4 virtual desktops, how can I access them from Unity?

When I have one open instance of lets say Chromium on one of the virtual desktops and I click the icon in the Unity panel, I automatically switch to the virtual desktop the program runs on. However, when I have Nautilus running in various desktops, clicking on the icon always ONLY shows me the open instances on the current desktop. If I want to switch to another instance I first have to go to the desktop I want to see. This does not make any sense to me, as I primally think in applications, not in desktops - and this concept is working well if you have just one instance open.

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Have you tried adding a corner hotspot for expo? I just put my cursor to the bottom-right corner and all my desktops are shown. – Bill O'Dwyer Jul 30 '12 at 11:14
Of course I could do that, but it does not solve or answer anything. It still is very inconvenient to handle if I have to think (or look at the unity panel) whether I have one open instance or several and where they are located... – Martin Betz Jul 30 '12 at 11:28
Possible duplicate? askubuntu.com/questions/121126/… – fossfreedom♦ Jul 30 '12 at 18:32
@fossfreedom Thanks for the link, that was an insightful article on Unity and Compiz and the tab-switcher, but could not solve my problem with the unity panel... – Martin Betz Jul 30 '12 at 20:34
@mmb - are you sure? Just untick that option - alt tab to nautilus - hold - and then you'll see all the nautilus instances on all desktops. – fossfreedom♦ Jul 30 '12 at 20:40
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