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I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04. Everything works well except the workspaces refuse to form more than one row and I'm use to working with a 2x2 grid. The dimensionality of the workspace settings is reflected in the "desktop expo" behaviour obtained from the button in the unity dock, but is not in the Ctrl-Alt- switching. See screenshot:

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Neither the compiz settings (general options) nor indicator-workspaces seem to be able to properly fix this. From reading around, most other people are not having this issue.

Has anyone got some ideas on what has gone wrong and how to fix it?
(n.b. that I'm using Unity 2D)

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This is a known bug with high priority.

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Thanks htorque - that's exactly the behaviour I see. So I've subscribed for the bug notifications and hope the issue gets fixed soon! – Simon Jul 9 '11 at 9:44
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This answer needs to be updated. – Jorge Castro Feb 29 at 14:28
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There is a workaround:
1. Launch a terminal, run the command "gnome-panel"
2. Look for the old style workspace icons, by default, it's located at lower right corner
3. Right click on it, choose "preferences"
4. Set the number of rows, in your case, to 2
5. Your should get the new workspace changes in, close the windows

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For this to work, you need to install the gnome-panel package and dependencies that include the packages gnome-applets and gnome-session-fallback, but once you've done that, it works fine. +1 – Simon Mar 1 at 1:03
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