Windows from newly added launchers are lost.

[Timmmm]

Ok, this is a little hard to explain. Basically with two separate programs (QtCreator and Eclipse) I followed (roughly, as far as I remember) the following proceedure:

1. Install app *not from apt*.
2. Create a custom .desktop file in ~/Desktop
3. Launch the app using that file.
4. Pin it to the dock.
5. Close the program (or minimise - I can't quite remember).

Basically this leaves you in a state where the dock (and alt-tab, etc) thinks the program is not running, but actually it is, and its window is still hanging around. If you click the pinned launcher it starts another instance of the program.

Logging out and logging back in again fixes the problem, which suggests there is something unity does on initialisation that it should also do when you add launchers.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

This issue occurs only when desktop files are not placed in usual desktop dirs (/usr/share/applications, ~/.local/share/applications/, etc etc etc).

[Luiz Felipe Talvik (talvik)]

This bug is related to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/748516

And here is a video description of the bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/748516/comments/11

The window becomes inaccessible if I minimize it, requiring me to kill it.
It happened to me while using Eclipse, and I lost some of my work. Please, raise the importance.

[Alex Baggott (alex-baggott)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. We have tried to recreate this on the latest release of Ubuntu, but cannot reproduce it. This bug is being marked as Invalid. If you believe the problem to still exist in the latest version of Ubuntu, please comment on why that is the case and change the bug status to NEW.