Workspace Switcher problem in Fedora 9

[Alan Evans]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll have to give this a try from my laptop -- I'm actually running
> remotely over VNC right now so I can't enable desktop effects from here.

With desktop effects enabled, I've only ever been able to have 4
workspaces. Very annoying.

I found an apparently relevant bugzilla from almost a year ago:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=382901

but the comments seem much more concerned with problems other than the
limited number of workspaces.

I would normally consider this a deal-breaker for desktop effects,
which I don't really care about anyway. (Interesting to see or show
off, but not really an improvement in my work flow.) But in my case,
using the default desktop causes the system to lock up if I move a
window too quickly or at the wrong time or something. I never have
figured it out exactly, but I've never had a lockup when using compiz,
which I think is strange.