Unity

Icons not visible in the launcher or alt-tab switcher

Bug #833905 reported by Omer Akram
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned
Unity 4.12.0
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned

Bug Description

unity 4.10.0-0ubuntu1

Tested on
Acer Aspire One A110
Asus 1215P

With the latest update the launcher icons are no visible but they can be accessed as tooltips appear when the cursor is over the icon as well apps can be launched. see the attached screenshot.

The issue did not happen with my NVIDIA system.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :
tags: added: regression-release
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → Confirmed
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3vi1 (launchpad-net-eternaldusk) wrote :

Same thing here on a CR-48.

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Anonymous Meerkat (lkjoel) wrote :

Same thing here, except that I have an NVIDIA graphics card.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

this commit http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity-team/unity/trunk/revision/1443 fixes.

Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 4.12.0
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

unity (4.10.2-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - fix the launcher don't dodging sometimes when it should
    - correctly set the focus when selecting a lens
    - fix launcher and switcher icons not showing on some video cards

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Ronald Duncan (ronaldduncan) wrote :

It is back in unity 4.24.0 I have just lost my icons

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Ronald Duncan (ronaldduncan) wrote :

Screen shot showing the missing icon and that hovering over them shows that the programs are underneath they also launch when clicked.

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Ronald Duncan (ronaldduncan) wrote :

uname
Linux dev5 3.1.0-2-generic #6-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 16 06:16:45 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Graphics card ATI Radeon

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