Comment 3 for bug 967189

OK. Since nobody seems that bothered about fixing either this or bug #960191 I guess I'll just have to do it myself. What I am proposing is a series of tests to determine whether xfwm is the culprit or xorg-server-core - because it HAS to be one of those.

If icons are not inheriting from their parents at all even when a window manager is not present, then we are in quite serious trouble, because it means the X11 stack is severely broken and with just a few weeks to go until launch it means every 12.04 variant is broken and will remain so throughout the life of Precise.

Anyways I'll post to here and to bug #960191 with the results of my tests.