Recently added launchers in unity won't recognize whether the application is running or not

[José Antonio]

Binary package hint: unity

After adding a new launcher in the Unity launcher, if the application is started, the launcher isn't able to recognize if the application is currently running or not and won't show it as running being required to logout to have a proper functioning. This bug could be considered serious for applications like LibreOffice since minimizing it could make that current window impossible to grab again (in the case of LibreOffice having quickstart enabled seems to break this bug though).

jose@JARR-Laptop:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

jose@JARR-Laptop:~$ apt-cache policy unity
unity:
  Installed: 3.8.12-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.8.12-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.8.12-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.8.10-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

That's because BAMF doesn't regenerate its index, hence disallowing proper matches.

[Jens (jens-bormueller)]

They same behavior appeared with 11.10 (Alternate, 64bit) while opening a LibreOffice file with Nautilus. Launcher does not recognize that LibreOffice is running and the app isn't visible within Switcher. But starting LibreOffice in addition, the Launcher is showing the little triangle.