Comment 17 for bug 996604

> "Oh, right, somebody on the internet stated that's false, if that go written on the internet that must be true... </irony>"

...was about to say that myself, and I'm the submitter. :-)

> Not sure what you mean there. Unity doesn't put anything on other workspace, if it does that's a bug and "High" one in this case.

Then I'll open one, but basically, yes: Unity can, and does, put things on other workspaces under certain circumstances, and to make matters worse, I'm not sure those circumstances are uncommon.

The one I'm most intimately familiar with right now: laptop that I use in a dual-screen configuration at work, but a single-screen configuration at home. I place Empathy and its chat windows on the external monitor's screen at work (to the right, physically). At home, when I launch Empathy, nothing shows up anywhere - because the Empathy window has been automatically placed on the *workspace* to the right.

(Note: I never use workspaces proper, and this is not a problem that occurs when I lower the number of available workspaces to 1.)

> "Hum, so it's working with unity 5.10, do you downgrade compiz as well? The bug is currently assigned to compiz, if that's an unity issue it should be reassigned"

...it should definitely be reassigned, then. I can keep current Compiz and downgrade unity to 5.10, and that does work as the other poster says. (I'm not *going* to do that, because the bugfixes and advancements in 5.12 outweigh this defect, but still).