For reasons I won't go into, I've had to re-activate my "professional" login on my laptop. In order to distinguish it from the Elf user, which uses Enlightenment, I use Gnome when at the office. And one thing I absolutely loathe about Metacity, the Gnome window manager, is that when you're flipping between workspaces, you cannot roll from the last workspace to the first, or vice versa. You must flip all the way back.

This patch, to the file workspace.c, changes that:

--- workspace.c~        2005-07-13 10:06:21.000000000 -0700
+++ workspace.c 2006-01-06 21:11:36.000000000 -0800
@@ -758,13 +758,13 @@
     }

   if (layout.current_col < 0)
-    layout.current_col = 0;
-  if (layout.current_col >= layout.cols)
     layout.current_col = layout.cols - 1;
+  if (layout.current_col >= layout.cols)
+    layout.current_col = 0;
   if (layout.current_row < 0)
-    layout.current_row = 0;
-  if (layout.current_row >= layout.rows)
     layout.current_row = layout.rows - 1;
+  if (layout.current_row >= layout.rows)
+    layout.current_row = 0;

   i = layout.grid[layout.current_row * layout.cols + layout.current_col];

Why this isn't implemented by default is beyond me. This patch has worked it Metacity 2.x since the beginning, and works great with Metacity 2.24.