xpad needs improvements in Unity session

[Sergio Benjamim]

Open 2 or more pads in xpad, change to other window (like firefox or nautilus), and click in xpad icon in the Unity launcher, it is not possible to choose the the open pads like others apps in the system (the last one that was in focus is chosen, and you have to do Alt+"button above Tab" to reach others).

Do Alt+Tab to "Show Desktop", and you will not be able to acces xpad anymore (both clicking in the laucher and Alt+Tab are useless). You have to quit it, and opens again.

Right click in Xpad, and disable the option View -> Window Decoration. It will not appear in Unity Launcher and Alt+Tab, change to other window (firefox, totem...) and you will have to minimize all the windows to reach Xpad. Try to Alt+Tab to "Show Desktop", and you will have to killall xpad (if you try to open by the Unity search, it will open a empty pad behind all your windows).

It's a good sticky note app, but in Unity it become useless (or painful to use).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xpad 4.1-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-5.20-generic 3.13.0
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-5-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
Date: Mon Jan 27 22:39:31 2014
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140124)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xpad
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Srikant Patnaik (u-srikant-patnaik)]

Confirmed. Xpad doesn't show up on Alt-Tab, nor on panel.

Ubuntu 14.04 64bit
Xpad 4.2

[Srikant Patnaik (u-srikant-patnaik)]

Update to #2

$ killall xpad

helps.

Also, enabling window manager makes it appear on Alt-Tab

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

Confirmed Ubuntu 15.10 and Xpad 4.5