Thus we can not rely on iconification. However this should not affect deiconification or the window manager's capability to deiconify (e.g. by click on launcher). Note that the observed behaviour only occurs after run from autostart and did not appear in GNOME2 or Unity before 11.10.
As it is true that the window manager can iconify or deiconify windows:
http:// developer. gnome.org/ gtk/2.24/ GtkWindow. html#gtk- window- iconify
Thus we can not rely on iconification. However this should not affect deiconification or the window manager's capability to deiconify (e.g. by click on launcher). Note that the observed behaviour only occurs after run from autostart and did not appear in GNOME2 or Unity before 11.10.