Hi, After upgrading to Karmic, which has Gnome 2.27.5, the Gnome Workspace Switcher applet only shows a single workspace. All 9 workspaces still exist, and when you switch to a different workspace, the applet switches, and displays the current workspace correctly - it's just that we only see the one workspace. sjanssen spent some time with me last night poking at this, and recommended I post to the mailing list. Attached are some xprop readouts he asked for: xprop -root for compiz with 2 desktops, metacity with 2 desktops, and metacity with 9 desktops. I'd think it was just something broken with Karmic, as it's being worked on - but since the workspace applet works correctly under compiz and metacity, I have a feeling that the changes are on purpose, and would like to bring it to your attention. One additional tidbit of info that may or may not have any bearing - after I changed the number of desktops under metacity to get the xprop reading, when i attempted to go back to xmonad using .gnomerc, xmonad would not start. I had to delete my .gconf directory to get things to work again. I'm happy to be of any assistance I can in providing further information. rupa/[31d1]