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Unity dock does not obey compiz window rules plugin

Bug #750728 reported by zorgoth on 2011-04-04

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Expired	Undecided	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Expired	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

I have a window which is set by window rules to skip taskbar and be unclosable. To be precise, I have an instance of the terminal emulator terminator as part of my desktop background (i.e. I made it unclosable, skip taskbar, unminimizable, unmaximizable, fixed size, fixed placement, unmovable, sticky, undecorated) I have other windows of the same class that should be picked up by the taskbar. If I open an ordinary terminator window, the dock says there are two terminators, and allows me to close my (supposedly uncloable) background terminator. If I close the normal window, it still says there is one terminator open, which is the background terminator it is not supposed to see, as you can confirm by trying to close it. You will also get the same issue if you try to make a launcher on the unity dock for terminator. This bug did not exist in gnome-panel - it also doesn't appear in cairo-dock. So I presume that unity's taskbar has something wrong with it.

To reproduce:

Install terminator from the repository.

Set Skip Taskbar and nonclosable in Window Rules to role=testing.

Run 'terminator --role=testing' (My Alt-F2 refuses to run this; you may need to use a terminal to run the command)

Open another terminator instance without the --role=testing switch, and/or try to make terminator a launcher. You will observe the dock misbehaving.