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[Rodney Dawes <702452@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This problem is made much worse when one needs to use the "[] Emulate a
virtual desktop" option in wine to make an application work;
particularly when that application works using multiple different .exe
files, and the setting must be enabled globally.

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Title:
  [launcher] Wine applications are wrongly matched

Status in BAMF Application Matching Framework:
  Confirmed
Status in The Window Navigator Construction Kit: libwnck:
  Fix Released
Status in Unity:
  Confirmed
Status in Wine:
  Confirmed
Status in bamf package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  After launching a Wine app from terminal or via gnome-do, it appears in the launcher with the Wine icon, instead of its own icon. The title is "Wine Window Program Loader" instead of the proper application name.
  It can't be favorited since it will favorite the wine executable itself.
  And obviously different wine apps are all grouped under the same launcher icon.

  See also bug #635223 about Wine applications not showing up in the
  dash.

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  A way to fix this is to make all the Wine generated .desktop file to
  include a StartupWMClass value that matches the instance name of the
  related program (generally the .exe file name to be executed).

  So for example, a "Mozilla Firefox.desktop" file can be easily fixed adding this parameter:
   StartupWMClass=firefox.exe

  Wine should try to add this information at file generation time.

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