More than 36 Workspaces

[ironfoot]

You are welcome, @nkabir.

I used the tutorial from @gordon and edited sources obtained from ubuntu repository:

How to modify and rebuild a package for Ubuntu MATE (or Ubuntu, or Debian)

Why Did You Post This? Lately I've created a lot of patches for various MATE applications, usually by request of another user here who asks for a developer to change something. I can and usually do contribute my changes upstream (to the main MATE developers), but alas it takes a long time for a new version of MATE to get released, and even longer for the new packages to wind up in Ubuntu MATE. As such I often distribute patches to users who can't wait ~6 - 12 months for a feature they need no…

@nkabir

You followed the instructions here?

Yes. I had to edit 3 files:

• marco/src/core/prefs.c --> redefine MAX_REASONABLE_WORKSPACES ;
• marco/src/org.mate.marco.gschema.xml --> change num-workspaces range AND edit org.mate.Marco.workspace-names schema, add keys for all extra workspaces by hand ;
• mate-panel/applets/wncklet/workspace-switcher.ui --> edit num_workspaces_adjustment object .

Then I compiled marco and mate-panel and installed all created .debs.

@ironfoot

glib-compile-schemas

This was unnecessary. Looks like I had the schemas recompiled automatically during .deb installation.