Unable to find running Apps during Switching Tabs in ubuntu 64 bit

[pavan]

I have recently upgraded to 11.10 version (64 bit). The most common problem i am facing is unable to find my running apps during alt+tab combination.

steps that i use to reproduce it:

1. open skype and login.
2. open some other apps like gchrome firefox etc..
3. be on chrome and use alt+tab to switch to skype .
Expected:
skype should be shown and shud be navigatable to that app.

actual:
Skype is not shown on the list. if i minimize chrome manually then i can see skype. If i use the left navigation bar where skype is shown, and hit the skype icon it opens a fresh instance of skype instead of showing the logged in instance. and say if i log in skype says already instance is running. The same is the problems with spreadsheet applications.
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[pavan (pavan-asuri)]

Can close this as "Not a bug". I didn't restarted my machine after installation. After i did that this problem doesnt' appear anymore.

Sorry...

Regards,
Pavan

[pavan (pavan-asuri)]

Ooops i was too quick... the bug still exists... now all of a sudden i dont' see my skype. May be also depends on the skype latest installation.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

I have reassigned this issue to skype package for now, thanks.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

I reassign the issue to Unity, as it involves a problem with alt-tab.

Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 876665
When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

Thanks in advance for your bug report.

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I feel its a problem of unity itself. I also dont' find apps like pidgin..etc I need to kill them to open them again.

[pavan (pavan-asuri)]

I did the following:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray', 'scp-dbus-service', 'Pidgin']"

and my skype and pidgin are shown on the systray. Now, i can find my skype.. Lets see how long it lasts... :)

Note: In pidgin the show in systray was marked as never i made it as always after the above step.

Regards,
Pavan

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Marking this report as closed as it seems to have been solved, feel free to mark it as "new" again if it is still an issue.

[pavan (pavan-asuri)]

It is not fixed. Is it?

In my previous comment i had put that i had to do some manual settings so that it stays on systray. I would presume thus an update
should be provided for a permanent fix on this. may be the settings which i have done should be taken into consideration in that update.

Regards,
Pavan

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

If I understand your comment correctly, it is intended behavior that applications that only have indicators in the "systray" have to be whitelisted to appear there. Increasingly, applications are being ported to have app-indicators and therefore at some point the "manual setting" you refer will not be needed, but I don't think that we will get those applications white-listed by default to appear in the systray.