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Launcher buttons stop working

Asked by Graham Saulnier

I just upgraded to 14.04 and after being logged in for a little bit of time most of the locked launcher buttons stop working with left click. Left clicking does not cause any animation or error message. I can right click and open the applications (eg: firefox, sublime, terminal, nautilus...).

I can stll launch applications by searching for them.

Restarting lightdm or rebooting temporarily fixes the issue.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Which release did you upgrade from?
If you remove the locked application, then recreate it using the icon from Dash, is it ok?

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Graham Saulnier (grahamsaulnier) said : 		#2

I am coming from 13.10.

I'll try removing/adding the application. Thing is it happens to more than one application at a time. Once the issue happens I'll have at most one that still works.

One other detail, if I have applications open, I can still use the launcher to switch to them. I can't middle click to open a new instance (have to right click).

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

If you make a fresh Ubuntu user and log in as that, is it the same?

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Graham Saulnier (grahamsaulnier) said : 		#4

Removing and readding the application eliminates the issue for that application (temporarily).

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Graham Saulnier (grahamsaulnier) said : 		#5

I made a standard user and after opening a few applications the issue reproduced itself.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#6

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