Intermittent launcher icon/Alt+Tab entry for LibreOffice
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Bug Description
This looks like the same generic issue as Bug #995916 and duplicates:
Bug #996887
Bug #999100
Bug #1002279
Bug #1002874
Bug #1003036
Bug #1003495
Bug #1004476
This is a problem with Writer and Calc (have not tried the others). One of the symptoms is that the generic LibreOffice icon in the launcher has the 'on another workspace' open triangle (>) on the left edge. I've tried all (4) workspaces but the documents are not on any of them. Also tried increasing and decreasing the number of workspaces but not luck.
The problem only seems to have started fairly recently (more recently than the 12.04 upgrade) so I wonder if it is a regression. It is not a problem all of the time. Sometimes a restart will sort it out.
Bug #995916 suggests this has been fixed for Gimp but it is a real problem (day to day functioning) still with LibreOffice.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.12-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite
Date: Fri Jul 20 11:00:58 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-27 (83 days ago)
A further description of symptoms:
The behaviour seems to be increasingly erratic/ unpredictable.
Start a Writer document from and existing file (double click) and the generic LibreOffice icon appears in the launcher with the full white triangle on the left edge and the icon also appears in the alt-tab switcher but neither brings up the document window.
Open Calc document from file (double click) - after first opening Writer - and Calc works fine: a Calc icon appears in both and brings up the document window.
Close both and open Writer document, sometimes it comes up as generic icon sometimes not, sometimes it brings up window and sometimes it doesn't.
There are too many permutations to go through.