Intermittent launcher icon/Alt+Tab entry for LibreOffice

[Karl Kropf]

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
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,decor,vpswitch,grid,mousepoll,imgpng,regex,wall,place,resize,compiztoolbox,gnomecompat,wobbly,obs,move,session,animation,unitymtgrabhandles,expo,fade,workarounds,scale,ezoom,unityshell]
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)

[Karl Kropf (ksk-clara)]

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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Nicolás Abel Carbone (nicocarbone)]

I am having the same problem. Any workaround available?

[Karl Kropf (ksk-clara)]

The only workaround I've found so far is the keyboard shortcut > Super+W, which brings up all windows (maximised and minimised). You then need to find the LibreOffice one amongst them.

[Rob Crawford (robertcrawford7755)]

I'm also effected by this bug - there are 2 workarounds I'm using:

1) CTRL + W wil show all open windows.

2) ALT + F2 then typing unity --replace will restart Unity and always fixes the problem.

There are many different problematic scenarios, which only effect LibreOffice. They mainly occur when opening an .ODG/.ODP etc. file, however sometimes occur when opening an LO application.

I don't remember this happening on a clean install, so possible caused by an update...

[Rob Crawford (robertcrawford7755)]

Here is a screenshot of an example of the bug.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

is bug 1026426 something similar?

[Karl Kropf (ksk-clara)]

I think Omer is correct. It looks like this is the same bug as 1026426.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

thanks Karl, I marked this bug as duplicate of bug 1026426