Clicking on some application buttons in the launcher does not raise any window

[Michael Terry]

Binary package hint: unity

If I have tomboy open with some notes but I'm in a different app, when I click on the tomboy icon in the launcher to switch to the top note, nothing happens.

If I do have a note as the active window already, clicking on the tomboy icon in the launcher correctly does the "Expose" feature where it shows me all the note windows I have open. And clicking on a different note in Expose mode is able to raise it. So unity does know about all the windows and *can* raise tomboy windows.

It should be able to raise one when trying to switch between apps.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: unity 0.2.46-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 28 16:11:30 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity

[Felipe Figueiredo (philsf)]

I found that if the search window is open, the launcher button works. If I only have notes windows open however, they are not displayed.

Can you check if the same happens to you?

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

No, in no case could I get the launcher button to work:
1) Search window open, no notes open
2) Search window open and notes open
3) No search window, but with notes open

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

And the same thing happens with Gimp.

[Felipe Figueiredo (philsf)]

Michael,

the behaviour I described also does not happen anymore, in the latest version. I have now the same as you see.

[Felipe Figueiredo (philsf)]

The launcher button works only if a window of the application has focus, but it does not give focus to the application.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

@Felipe: is there an example where you've noticed the distinction?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I have seen this problem with gtk-recordmydesktop and gimp both not have a maximized window

[Felipe Figueiredo (philsf)]

@David,

yes, from the apps I use this happens with Tomboy. To reproduce, follow:

1- open tomboy application, the search window opens and displays your notes. leave it open.
2- open any other application (say a terminal) and give focus to the term window.
3- click the tomboy launcher button. nothing happens, but the search window doesn't come up.
4- Switch to tomboy with Alt-Tab and click the tomboy launcher button again
5- Note that the window is displayed as a miniature. if there are notes open, all windows are displayed in the wall, as expected

That this is a regression since Maverick beta.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

This appears fixed for me in natty now. I'm not going to close, since I only tested tomboy and it seems you all might be targeting a 10.10 SRU.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

this is not an issue in Natty Narwal and I dont think it will be fixed in ubuntu-10.10 since the development have taken a big turn :)