unity launcher does not retain netbeans application

Seems like BAMF is unable to match the application to a proper desktop file. Changing project to BAMF.

That might explain why unity-launcher calls it java-lang-thread instead of Netbeans. Btw, where does bamf keep its user configuration files?

I should ask instead: where does unity-launcher keep its configuration files so I can see what it's trying to do with the netbeans launcher? The web seems to think it keeps them somewhere like ~/.local/share/unity or in ~/.gconf/desktop/unity but this is not correct for my natty systems.

Seriously, if anyone can point me to documentation on bamf or unity that might be relevant I'd be happy to try and track down the issue. I've googled for unity design documentation and asked an ubuntu question but had no luck yet.

Is there a temporary workaround?

Maybe adding it via dconf-editor?

As a workaround, I find that if I drag the netbeans desktop file from /usr/share/applications into the launcher, it stays there after restarting X.

But when you run netbeans, the launcher isn't clever enough to recognise it and it gives it a second application icon.

I have the same issue as Rocko described but with FreeCol which runs on java. I can drag the .desktop file to the launcher, but it has a second application icon when started.

This is the same bug ...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bamf/+bug/751909

The problem is related to all Java swing ...

http://www.mailrepository.com/ubuntu-bugs.lists.ubuntu.com/msg/3603081/

hey i think netbeans executable runs another java file which it generates and when you log off after you add it to the launcher unity checks if that java thing exists and it doesn't find it so it is removed this also explains why there are two icons in the launcher

i'm trying to find a workaround for that

Hi, I create a netbeans plugin to fixed it. You can go to http://danjared.blogspot.com/p/netbeans-plugins.html.

For the moment my plugin is waiting for approval but I hope is already soon.

@danjaredg Thanks man, great work!

A plugin to workaround the bug is great, but shouldn't unity be able to do this by itself? After all, the other docks (eg DockbarX, Avant Window Navigator) already solved this problem a long time ago.

Agree with Rosko, Unity should handle this.

Same happends for tvtime or gedit when I open text file from some remote location from Nautilus.

hi, there are other bug here. When i run a web application, and the browser not is opened (chrome here). Netbeans open it, but the browser is showed like a netbeans window, unity no show it in launcher in icon of the browser (that i keep in launcher), show it in a new netbeans icon in launcher, not in browser icon.. If a switch window, to go back to browser i need click in netbeans icon in the launcher. when i click in browser icon, it opens in netbeans icon group =(

It only happens when i run a web application and the browser does not opens yet.

@danjaredg NetBeans plugin does not work after upgrade to NetBeans 7.1. Any update?

I think this bug is the same problem I have with adding my eclipse start script to the launcher. I have eclipse extracted in a local home folder, and I created a simple bash script which just goes to that directory (via 'cd') and runs the executable. Running this from any console works (I've added the script's location to my PATH), and when the app initially shows up in my launcher it soon changes/switches to another launcher and the initial one disappears. Permanently adding either of these two launcher entries to the bar works, but neither functions as expected (actually starting up the application).

I don't think this problem is specific to Netbeans or any other application: the basic problem is we have no documentation on Unity that allows us to create custom launchers. Even the sparse documentation I've found in various threads online points to looking at the ~/.local/share/applications or /usr/local/share/applications folders in order to copy already existing .desktop files. Neither of these locations exist. The location /usr/share/applications contains .desktop files, but these look to be the default files that each application installs and are not the actual files related to the launchers actually on my system.

Where are the files related to the unity launchers?

Is bamfdaemon the application that matches windows and .desktop files? (http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/libs/bamfdaemon). I think I recall seeing a message about its database being updated if you add a new application from the repos.

As a workaround, I modified my /usr/share/applications/netbeans-7.1.1.desktop file and added this line:

StartupWMClass=NetBeans IDE 7.1.1

and now unity matches the running netbeans with the launcher icon. I used CCSM / Window Management to grab the WM Class.

Fix committed into lp:unity at revision 3458, scheduled for release in unity, milestone 7.1.1

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.1.0+13.10.20130812.1-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.1.0+13.10.20130812.1-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Brandon Schaefer ]
  * Add ibus.py to the tests/autopilot/unity/emulators from
    lp:autopilot. (LP: #1210661)
  * Don't make the ScopeView/DashView/ScrollView Visible on start up
    (bool wise, causing things to think its ok to render). (LP:
    #1201631)
  * Adds the ability to use the mouse in the switcher. (LP: #824965)

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Add edge barriers to unity::panel::PanelView. (LP: #931384)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * ApplicationLauncherIcon: Create a local desktop file when sticking
    an app that has not Also make icon sticky only if both the icon
    itself and the inner app is sticky as well. (LP: #1209320, #753305,
    #765466, #754334, #704046)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 3462
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Mon, 12 Aug 2013 06:49:01 +0000

Fix Released in Bamf BAMF 0.5.0.

Fix Released in Nux Unity 7.1.1.