Some running app icons don't show up in the launcher

[Dan Smith]

Some running applications don't have a launcher tile, nor do they show up in the Alt-tab list. The gimp does this for me all the time. When I launch keepassx, I get a tile for the password dialog, and then it goes away once the main window opens. I am able to switch to these applications with Super-W, but not alt-tab and not the launcher, of course.

This is a fresh install of 12.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.12-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,decor,compiztoolbox,grid,resize,mousepoll,regex,imgpng,vpswitch,gnomecompat,move,snap,place,wall,unitymtgrabhandles,animation,fade,workarounds,expo,session,scale,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Wed May 23 08:23:49 2012
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, you list several issues which are each duplicate bugs so I can't mark the bug as duplicate of one other ticket, marking it as invalid instead, the gimp issue is bug #995916 and a SRU is being working with a fix, the keepass case has been mentioned in other bugs (I don't find the numbers atm though)

[Dan Smith (dansmith)]

Ah, thanks. I figured it was a core issue as soon as I saw it with the second app and couldn't find another bug that matched. Thanks for the pointer to the other one.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

The issue with keepassx is bug 1002874.