Microsoft Word claims to be started, but is not

[Ader]

Binary package hint: unity

I have added a "keep in launcher" for winword.exe in the new unity bar on the left side of the screen. When I start Ubuntu, the system claims that winword is already started (there are three arrows pointing right on the left hand side of the icon (and the icon is the correct one)). When I click it, the little arrow pointing left on the right hand side of the icon appears to say the application is active, but no winword appears.

If I right click on the icon and select "quit", everything on the screen disappears leaving only my wallpaper image. These things reappear after a while, but not after having moved around the applications to other workspaces. I cannot seem to find any logic as to which workspace gets which application.

If I deselected "keep in launcher" and then try to quit winword by right-clicking, the same thing happens, but the program actually disappears from the unity bar. When I now click the windows key and start entering something to search for an application, Unity is not able to find any application at all (not even application I know I have) (EDIT: This search fault does not necessarily have anything to do with this issue. It happens regularly also at times when I am not playing around with winword).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: wine (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 15 10:04:37 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: wine1.2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-14 (0 days ago)

[Ader (rasmusrim)]

I now removed winword from the unity bar, and started it manually through the terminal. That worked well, but the icon on the bar displays Wine's icon and not winword's. I then again chose "Keep In Launcher" and closed winword. When I now click the wine glass in the unity bar, it starts blinking, but nothing happens. How can I check the actual command executed for an application in the unity bar?

The "search function" when clicking the windows button has also started working again. I don't know what I did...

Bottom line: The only way for me to start MS Word is manually through the terminal.

[Ader (rasmusrim)]

Or... hang on. Searching for "word" in the search field and then starting also works. But again, it displays the Wine icon, and selecting "Keep In Launcher" works, but clicking the icon afterwards does nothing.

[Ader (rasmusrim)]

I now did a restart of my computer, and the launcher again claims that winword is already started even though it is not. Now it actually diplays a really weird behaviour. Sometimes, clicking on it displays the same results as clicking "Super+W" (all the windows become smaller and you can choose between them), and other times it does nothing. This actually depends on which workspace I'm in. Workspace 2 = Super + W, Workspace 1 = nothing...

There are now two small arrows pointing right on the left hand side of the icon, and the icon is wine's.

[Ader (rasmusrim)]

Please ignore comment #3. That was a different application, not winword.