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Martin Wildam (mwildam) wrote : Re: [Bug 1238122] Re: Libreoffice .desktop files containing StartupWMClass strings (since 4.1) confuse BAMF in precise

@Adam: I don't understand your complaint. What you are describing is
completely normal behaviour for all unity icons on the launcher (if I
understood correctly). Please try again to explain.

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Adam Niedling
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Marco: Your 'sed' workaround does not fix this problem entirely. After
> running it every calc and every writer document has only one icon on the
> launcher and when you hover your mouse over them it only says
> "LibreOffice Calc" or "LibreOffice Writer" instead of each document
> having its own icon and the mouse hovering would tell you the name of
> the document.
>
> Argh, I just checked this on a 13.10 box and the behavior is the same.,
> documents have no separate icons on the launcher. Since when is this the
> default behavior?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238122
>
> Title:
> Libreoffice .desktop files containing StartupWMClass strings (since
> 4.1) confuse BAMF in precise
>
> Status in BAMF Application Matching Framework:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> LO 4.1 adds to .desktop files the StartupWMClass string. While this is
> correct in general, the LO windows are very slow to update their flags
> and this leads to matching errors in Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> We need to ignore such values then.
>
> A woarkaround for people affected by this is just removing the class key from .desktop files by running:
> sudo sed '/StartupWMClass=.*/d' -i /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-*.desktop
>
> Saucy is not affected by this bug, since it monitors the window class
> directly.
>
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