Unity does not recognize a running program's window

Bug #779274 reported by Hadmut Danisch
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

Hi,

I just experienced a strange effect with the new unity desktop.

I use a commercial image processing program, bibble5. It is running just as normal under gnome. But when starting it under unity, the window manager just does not detect it as a running program. Although the bibble window appears, it does not move to the foreground, does not get focus, the unity launcher panel does not hide, the menu entries do not appear in the top panel, and the bibble5 window - although clearly visible - does not appear in the list of running windows (pressing alt-tab).

There's something wrong with the detection of running programs.

(you can download a free eval from www.bibblelabs.com)

regards

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.12-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
Date: Sun May 8 01:37:11 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-07 (0 days ago)

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Hadmut Danisch (hadmut) wrote :
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

hmm, I dont seem to be able to reproduce the problem you reported. bibble seems to be working just fine here. did you try this on a new session?

Changed in unity:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Hadmut Danisch (hadmut) wrote :

After some more testing and debugging I've found the problem.

The last time I had used bibble5 I used it under Gnome and in Bibble5's Full Screen Mode (See Menu „View” or press alt+enter).

Therefore, Bibble5 came up in fullscreen mode again when starting. And then for some reason is not recognized by unity (at least on my 1024x600 netbook). After deleting

$HOME/.config/Bibble Labs/Bibble 5 Pro.conf

it came up in normal mode and then was working again. More or less. Bibble5's menues also do not appear in the Unity top panel, but were covered by the panel and thus became unavailable.

Obviously, Bibble5 somehow differs from the usual X11 programs. But then, it was running pretty well under several Desktops like gnome, KDE, xfce,.... It's just unity where problems occur. So I'd rather judge unity as guilty for not beeing compatible with all X11 programs.

regards

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