Some applications when active do not put anything in the menubar, and holding alt does not show their menus even though hitting F10 will. Debugging this with unity peeps they got me to look at the dbus information, at org.ayatana.bamf, specifically at some application entries. I have one of those which has not DesktopFile associated with it. This is not normal apparently.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: bamfdaemon 0.2.110-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 24 12:01:03 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bamf
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-01 (22 days ago)
Hi Andy, can you share details for that application? The absence of a desktop file should not prevent it from being tracked by bamf.