Dock not syncs running applications list

[handicraftsman]

Dock not syncs running applications list (which not in favorites). For example: i am starting Powder Toy (google, if don't know), but it shows on dock only when i am disable and reenable option "Show running applications" (or after some time). Same thing with closing applications.

[handicraftsman]

Ohhh, new info: shell restart fixes this for a while...

[micheleg]

Is it specific to this or some applications? Also, does the problem occurs with the extension disabled in the normal dock inside the overview?

[micheleg]

I forgot to ask: are you running wayland?

[handicraftsman]

Nope, running X. And not tested disabling extension

[poxin13]

I'm having this same issue with v53 on Ubuntu 16.04/Gnome. Disabling/Enabling show running applications syncs them but you have to do that manually - odd.

[micheleg]

Sorry if I'm tedious about this: Does the problem occurs with the extension disabled, i.e. in the normal dock inside the overview?

[poxin13]

Well for me, this was fixed on a reboot and seems to be working fine now. Can't speak for @handicraftsman. I made some tweaks before hand but not exactly sure what step may have impacted it.

[sketchbuch]

I have this problem, steam showed up 4 or 5 minutes after the app started and I was able to use it. I have seen this with atom editor too.

Ubutu gnome 16.04 dash to dock in panel mode

[franglais125]

Maybe adding a signal to _queueRedisplay() might help with this. I remember seeing this issue sporadically, but it went away once I started to use workspace isolation (which connects "restacked").

@sbtypo3 if you see this issue again, can you try just removing* a favorite app? That should trigger a _queueRedisplay(). To be clear, I am not suggesting this as a workaround every time you have this problem, just to know if adding a signal would be helpful at all. If you see that the dash is refreshed properly, then perhaps the _queueRedisplay() thing could be the solution.

*By that I simply mean right clik on a favorite app and select "Remove from Favorites"

I'll try to reproduce the issue (without having workspace isolation activated), and try to see if this works.

[sketchbuch]

it happened again just now. I unfaved another app and steam showed up straight away

[franglais125]

@sbtypo3 Thanks for the feedback! What version of the (1) extension and (2) Gnome Shell are you using?

[sketchbuch]

3.18.5 (Ubuntu Gnome 16.04) and gnome3 ppa to get latest version of nautilus, but not the staging ppa.

Dash-to-Dock 53

[franglais125]

@micheleg what do you think of this patch [fbd6079a3fc227c8344dfaeaa23b8a39de4ead17] ?

[micheleg]

You are just moving the signal from one class to the oher, or am I missing something?

[franglais125]

Yes, but in the docking.js case, it is only connected with workspace isolation. I suspect this is why the problem went away for me (I used to have back then). Moving to dash.js activates it by default.

[franglais125]

@sbungert there is a new version available. Do you mind updating and checking if the problem is still present?

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/307/dash-to-dock/

[sketchbuch]

It's sort of half fixed... now when the window for steam appears saying that it is loading and connecting as my user name it appears straight away on the dock, but when that closes and the main steam window opens there is no icon until i open another app or unfav something

[franglais125]

Thanks.

Here is a branch (with a single commit ahead of v54) with what I hope is a fix: https://github.com/franglais125/dash-to-dock/tree/bugfix_sync

Do you know how to test it?

[sketchbuch]

No... can you give me some tips?

[franglais125]

Alternatively, you can activate the "Isolate workspaces" option from the Dash-to-dock settings.

Not permanently, but just to see if the problem goes away, i.e. try opening Steam and see if the dock syncs properly when this option is activated.

[micheleg]

Again, can somebody that can reproduce the bug check if it occurs also with the default dock, .i.e. with this extension disabled? I have the feeling it is a problem with the shell. @franglais125's workaround look okish, but I'd rather know why it is required, and if it's the case file an upstream bug,

[sketchbuch]

I just turned it off in the tweak tool and tried steam. The loading window shows up automatically on the dash on overview but the main steam window that appears after signing into steam doesn't

[sketchbuch]

On ubuntugnome 16.10 this problem seems to have been fixed

[micheleg]

@franglais125 The problem with the proposed patch is that the restacked signals is emitted a bit too often to just use it as a workaround, for instance anytime you change window.

[franglais125]

@micheleg Yes, I generally agree with that. As the other bug you just fixed (issue #386) showed, redisplay() is called way too often. At least for the workspace isolation to work well, the restack signal has worked well, although it does seem a bit excessive at times. I'll try and keep an eye on this and see if I can send improvements from time to time.

As for this issue, it seems that newer versions of the Shell do work better, so maybe over time this particular problem will slowly go away.

[micheleg]

To me it looks like an upstream bug in the appsystem, which maybe has been solved in recent versions.