Unity launcher not showing proper notifications count (on secondary monitors)

[Izidor Matušov]

Since I installed 12.10, the unity panel is not showing notifications count properly, e.g. unread conversations for empathy, new emails for thunderbird.

It works somehow - numbers are shown if the application sets it on startup. In very rare occasions even later. However, it doesn't work in the same way as it was in 12.04 - every time I get a new mail or a new IM message, a number over icon is shown. Message indicator works as before.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity 6.8.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Tue Oct 30 10:00:29 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-19 (10 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

The Unity launcher API seems to be working fine in my localized testing. This seems like an issue with Thunderbird and Empathy.

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

thanks for the bug report
some visuals or screenshot required ?
give me the steps to reproduce it ?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version.

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:unity at revision None, scheduled for release in unity, milestone 7.1.1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.1.1+13.10.20131004-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.1.1+13.10.20131004-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

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[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

Fix Released in Nux Unity 7.1.1.