App launcher icons don't respond

[Nick Hewitt]

Left click on an app icon in the launcher bar works fine on first use. After closing the app, it is impossible to open the app again by left click. The only way to open the same app is to right click and select the open option from the menu. Software updater would not launch after notifying me by being highlighted that updates were available. It was necessary to use apt-get in terminal to update.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Apr 23 22:27:47 2014
DistUpgraded: 2014-04-22 20:30:06,232 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV516/M62-S [Mobility Radeon X1350] [1002:7196] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30d7]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-21 (245 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq 6820s
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=UUID=0f70fc5d-bedc-4a3f-b7f8-707f56830f71 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-22 (1 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/14/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68MDD Ver. F.0A
dmi.board.name: 30D7
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 83.13
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU8313FRT
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68MDDVer.F.0A:bd04/14/2008:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaq6820s:pvrF.0A:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn30D7:rvrKBCVersion83.13:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP Compaq 6820s
dmi.product.version: F.0A
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.0-4ubuntu5
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.0-4ubuntu5
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
xserver.bootTime: Wed Apr 23 21:02:54 2014
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2
xserver.video_driver: radeon

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) reached end-of-life on April 25,2019.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported when using a currently supported version of Ubuntu? Please let us know if you do otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

No response from reporter so closing as 'Invalid'.