Cannot add the byobu desktop launcher to Unity's launcher

[Dustin Kirkland ]

Binary package hint: unity

I'm trying to add the Byobu desktop icon to Unity's launcher.

This isn't working properly. If I search for and run the byobu.desktop launcher:
 1) I see gnome-terminal's icon, rather than byobu's icon, in the launcher on the left
 2) If I right click and select keep-in-launcher, I get gnome-terminal in the launcher, rather than byobu.

Byobu is a command line application, that runs within gnome-terminal. The content of /usr/share/applications/byobu.desktop is:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Byobu Window Manager
Comment=Text-based Window Manager using GNU Screen
Icon=/usr/share/byobu/pixmaps/byobu.svg
Exec=byobu-launcher
Type=Application
Terminal=true
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;
NoDisplay=true
X-GNOME-Gettext-Domain=byobu

Is there something missing from this desktop file, which is required to work well within Unity?

I suspect that this might be a general problem for any applications which run-in-terminal. I'd think this is something we would really, really want to fix. Please.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Jason, I think this can be related to introducing back the gio module to bamf.
This can be related to the "personal launcher" issue we got: launching a .desktop file, executing, for instance, totem with a majhong icon should respect the custom .desktop file (particularly for instance in the migration period).

Can you have a look there?

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Ping? Can someone have a look at this? If there's something I can do
to fix this within my application, I'm happy to...

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

I think using the GIO envvar in BAMF is the cleanest way to fix this, and definitely should be fixed for Natty.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Weirdly enough, this started working a few weeks ago, but after
dist-upgrade this morning, it broke again :-(

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Byobu is now working with current bamf if you start it from the application place (not if you start a terminal and you launch it from it, of course, as it will match the terminal).
So:
1. open the dash/the application place
2. run byobu
-> you should see it in the launcher (and not the terminal)
You can then stick it and try to launch it again

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

\o/ Thanks, guys!!!

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

This stopped working again :-(

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

If I click on the Ubuntu logo in the top left, type 'byobu', and then run the application, a window pops up and then goes away very quickly.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

and I just tried again there in a guest user session, seems to work well.

Can you get a step by step reproducible test case from a fresh user please?