No Dash Icon After Package Install Until New Session

[Buzzing Robot]

15.10 Wily, updated :

After installing a package (standard repo packages) via apt/apt-get/Synaptic, that item is not found by a Dash search and its icon does not appear in a manual display of applications in Dash.

Appropriate .desktop files are placed in /usr/share/applications.

The items can be found in a new session, i.e., after logging out and logging in.

I've seen this repeatedly on multiple clean installs from the dailies.

Apt is at: 1.0.9.10ubuntu7

Dash is: 0.5.7-4ubuntu2

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[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Doesn't happen to all newly installed though certainly for some. So some examples of packages that don't show till a log out/in may be useful.
On a fresh 15.10 install today 4 examples
vlc - shows
audacious - shows
synaptic - doesn't show
nvidia-settings - doesn't show

From the above very short list the 2 that don't show immediately happen to not have a %letter at end of the .desktop's Exec= line, the 2 that do show do have such an ending..

More examples of those that don't show would be nice to know & see if the %letter is a factor or not.

[Buzzing Robot (buzzingrobot)]

This behavior has persisted on each of the clean installs of dailies I've done since posting the bug, including today's.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

With Ultraedit (www.idmcomp.com) I found that a re-install made the program icon visible in the dash (tested twice). I didn't need to log out and log back in again. I've also seen this bug affect synaptic.

[Enrico (enricobe)]

Same problem with few programs. For example I coudn't see Tixati in the Dash after a manual installation of the .deb downloaded from the website

[Flávio Oliveira (oliveiradeflavio)]

Hi guys,

I'm having the same problem reported. Every time I install a program, be it through the "apt-get install" or through a package "DEB" when I look the same in the "Dash" it is not found.

When I run the program via "Terminal" it works correctly.

So that the program icon back to "appear" in the "dash" to restart my Ubuntu system.

[Luciano Gardim (lucianogardim)]

Package: retroarch - no icon in Dash (after reset, Dash show the icon).

Package: java8-installer - no icon in Dash (after reset, Dash show the icon).

[Enrico (enricobe)]

same problem on 16.04 here

[nazar2sfive (nazar2sfive)]

no icons after variety, viber.

[minple (fminple)]

affects me too. every installing software, I have to ens process "unity-scope-loader" in system monito, very inconvenience.