wiki pages about filing bug reports have out of date info

[erik flister]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage and
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

both say that you can find the right package for a bug in a window'ed app using
ubuntu-bug -w

the former also says you can:
Launch System -> Preferences -> Main Menu.
Select the item for the application. (For example, System -> Preferences -> Display.)
Click "Properties" button.
Write down the "Command" value.

or
xprop WM_CLASS

none of those work for me in 21.10.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source packages so that people interested in the package can find the bugs about it. You can find some hints about determining what package your bug might be about at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. You might also ask for help in the #ubuntu-bugs irc channel on Freenode.

To change the source package that this bug is filed about visit https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1956415/+editstatus and add the package name in the text box next to the word Package.

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[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

I just performed a quick test of `ubuntu-bug -w` & clicking on an open `qterminal` window... it correctly offered to file a bug report on qterminal for me (not filed of course). It worked on this Ubuntu/Lubuntu (LXQt) jammy system; though it's not a fresh/clean install on tagging `qterminal`

I booted a recent QA-test install of Ubuntu-MATE jammy (thus fresh install), and ran `ubuntu-bug -w` and clicked the mate-terminal, again it correctly identified the package.

As a Ubuntu-MATE welcome window had appeared; I clicked on that and it wrongly wanted to report on python3.9. That isn't correct; but the Welcome program is a snap; so maybe the issue is it's not detecting snap packages?

(this testing was quick & not thorough)

[erik flister (eflister)]

i'm in gnome. i open a terminal:

$ ubuntu-bug -w

it types back:

***

After closing this message please click on an application window to report a problem about it.

Press any key to continue...

after that, i can hit a bunch of keys, click a bunch of things, and nothing happens. if i ctrl-c, i get:

  File "/usr/bin/apport-cli", line 387, in <module>
    if not app.run_argv():
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 734, in run_argv
    (out, err) = xprop.communicate()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 1134, in communicate
    stdout, stderr = self._communicate(input, endtime, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 1979, in _communicate
    ready = selector.select(timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/selectors.py", line 416, in select
    fd_event_list = self._selector.poll(timeout)
KeyboardInterrupt

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

As Chris has demonstrated this does work in some situations however now when wayland is being used and there is another apport bug report about that. I'll make this a duplicate of the wayland bug.