Unity Launchpad & Taskbar missing when I use LibreOffice 12.04

[IanG]

Sometime after starting and using Libre Office in Windows, I lose the Unity launcher and Taskbar from view.

Once this happens, I can take the mouse cursor to the extremes and pick applications by guessing and moving slowly but even if I guess correctly where the shutdown menu is, it won't log me out or shut me down. Only once I get a terminal (Ctrl+alt+f2) can I use sudo shutdown -r now to reboot and start again.

If anyone can recommend the correct log files to upload, I would be grateful

Thanks

[Koen Roggemans (koen-roggemans)]

I hope I'm posting this in the right bug report.

I have 228 ubuntu 12.04 machines, running unity 2D (Atom N2600 :-(, so still no 3D support ) and libreoffice latest from ppa:libreoffice/ppa with this problem.

It's easy to reproduce and repair, just very annoying: start libreoffice writer, select some text, change the color and the launcher is gone.
To get it back, click on the power button and click on cancel when asked to shut down. The launcher is back.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

IanG where you using unity2d too?

[IanG (ian-usts)]

I can't remember exactly that far back but probably because that was the
most reliable at the time

On Fri, December 12, 2014 11:24 pm, Andrea Azzarone wrote:
> IanG where you using unity2d too?
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> ** Also affects: unity-2d
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
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> ** Changed in: unity
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> ** Changed in: unity-2d
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> Title:
> Unity Launchpad & Taskbar missing when I use LibreOffice 12.04
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>
> Status in Unity:
> Incomplete
> Status in Unity 2D:
> Incomplete
> Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
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> Bug description:
> Sometime after starting and using Libre Office in Windows, I lose the
> Unity launcher and Taskbar from view.
>
>
> Once this happens, I can take the mouse cursor to the extremes and
> pick applications by guessing and moving slowly but even if I guess
> correctly where the shutdown menu is, it won't log me out or shut me down.
> Only once I get a terminal (Ctrl+alt+f2) can I use sudo shutdown
> -r now to reboot and start again.
>
>
> If anyone can recommend the correct log files to upload, I would be
> grateful
>
> Thanks
>
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1227407/+subscriptions
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[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

But can you still reproduce this bug?

[IanG (ian-usts)]

Not now Andrea, no. Everything seems fine after several updates.

Sorry for being vague :(