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[Bug 1391671] [NEW] Some Unity Launcher Icons Stop Responding in One Screen, Fine in the Other

 

Public bug reported:

I  have two monitors displaying my desktop, and a Unity launcher in
both. I keep some applications in one screen, and some applications in
the other, and some applications (especially chat apps) I drag and drop
between screens depending on what I am working on in that moment.

Every so often (perhaps one or two days in a workweek?), some of the
icons in the left screen (primary) launcher become unresponsive. Other
icons will work fine, but a select 3-4 of them will just not respond.
All launcher icons will work fine in the right (secondary) screen. Today
I just realized that its just my icons that correspond to apps that I
drag around that are doing this (pidgin chat windows, XChat (irc),
sometimes Thunderbird, sometimes Gnome Terminal).

Logging out and logging back in alleviates the issue (which sucks, major
interruption of workflow). I cant seem to reproduce the issue on my own,
any combination of dragging, minimizing, opening, closing, etc, between
different screens all seem to work fine when Im intentionally trying to
recreate this bug. It usually just happens out of no where and I cant
seem to establish a pattern as to when and why.

This is on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit, and Ive used the same exact hardware /
peripherals for 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, and 13.10. I havent experienced
this issue before 14.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity 7.2.2+14.04.20140714-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-39.66-generic 3.13.11.8
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-39-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Nov 11 17:22:50 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-09 (33 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty

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Title:
  Some Unity Launcher Icons Stop Responding in One Screen, Fine in the
  Other

Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I  have two monitors displaying my desktop, and a Unity launcher in
  both. I keep some applications in one screen, and some applications in
  the other, and some applications (especially chat apps) I drag and
  drop between screens depending on what I am working on in that moment.

  Every so often (perhaps one or two days in a workweek?), some of the
  icons in the left screen (primary) launcher become unresponsive. Other
  icons will work fine, but a select 3-4 of them will just not respond.
  All launcher icons will work fine in the right (secondary) screen.
  Today I just realized that its just my icons that correspond to apps
  that I drag around that are doing this (pidgin chat windows, XChat
  (irc), sometimes Thunderbird, sometimes Gnome Terminal).

  Logging out and logging back in alleviates the issue (which sucks,
  major interruption of workflow). I cant seem to reproduce the issue on
  my own, any combination of dragging, minimizing, opening, closing,
  etc, between different screens all seem to work fine when Im
  intentionally trying to recreate this bug. It usually just happens out
  of no where and I cant seem to establish a pattern as to when and why.

  This is on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit, and Ive used the same exact hardware /
  peripherals for 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, and 13.10. I havent experienced
  this issue before 14.04.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: unity 7.2.2+14.04.20140714-0ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-39.66-generic 3.13.11.8
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-39-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Tue Nov 11 17:22:50 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-09 (33 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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