Icon and menu identify one program as another program

[Mike Doherty]

On rare occasions, I launch gnome-terminal, and the icon in the dash/dock is for another program. The menu at the top of the screen also identifies the running program as that other program. In the forthcoming screenshot, note that the menu says "VLC media player" and although there is a gnome-terminal icon in the dash, it's not active. Instead, the VLC icon corresponds to the gnome-terminal window. If the other program is also running, the dash shows that there are two windows of that program (ie two VLCs) by showing two dots on the icon. Unfortunately, this is so rare that I can't remember if it is only gnome-terminal/VLC. (I don't think so, but I am not sure.)

This is weird and wrong.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: unity 7.4.0+16.04.20160906-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-62.83-generic 4.4.40
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-62-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Feb 7 22:27:18 2017
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 virtualbox, 5.0.24, 4.4.0-59-generic, x86_64: installed
 virtualbox, 5.0.24, 4.4.0-62-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics [8086:1616] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics [17aa:2227]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-27 (286 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
MachineType: LENOVO 20BSCTO1WW
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.4.0-62-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/13/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: N14ET32W (1.10 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 20BSCTO1WW
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: 0B98417 WIN
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: None
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrN14ET32W(1.10):bd08/13/2015:svnLENOVO:pn20BSCTO1WW:pvrThinkPadX1Carbon3rd:rvnLENOVO:rn20BSCTO1WW:rvr0B98417WIN:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNone:
dmi.product.name: 20BSCTO1WW
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 3rd
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
upstart.unity-panel-service-lockscreen.log: (unity-panel-service:27104): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 4294967295 was not found when attempting to remove it
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160823-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.16.04.2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.2.0-1ubuntu2.2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.2.0-1ubuntu2.2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1.2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2
xserver.bootTime: Sat Feb 4 22:48:05 2017
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:
 intel(0): page flipping failed, on CRTC:30 (pipe=1), disabling synchronous page flips
 intel(0): failed to set mode: No such file or directory [2]
 intel(0): Failed to restore display configuration
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 1049
 vendor LGD
xserver.version: 2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.2