Description of problem: From mga#15238 (In reply to Len Lawrence from comment #1) > Another oddity; the preferences for the worktop switcher now lack the option > to choose the number of workspaces. A separate issue probably. Mate panel applet workspace switcher does not allow to choose number of workspaces. The problem is marco wm naming changes during 1.8 bugfix series. This is a known bug for mate-panel by upstream and fixed in 1.9 development series. I have use upstream git commit (https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/pull/240) to patch mate-panel and it seems worked. Please try mate-panel-1.8.1-3.mga5 Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
[lcl@vega ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/mate-panel mate-panel-1.8.1-3.mga5 That works fine. Thanks.
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Thanks. Then, it is confirmed that mate-panel-1.8.1-3.mga5 fixes this issue. So, i' m closing this bug report.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED