Hi, I wrote a tiny patch which changes the window class inside of winex11 from "Wine" to the name of the program executable. This solves the problem and does not require any changes to desktop files (and it also works if you start the program from a terminal). Most window managers should now only group together the windows of the same executable and not all wine applications. The patch is available at:
https://github.com/compholio/wine- compholio/blob/master/patches/winex11-Window_Groups/0001-winex11 -Prevent-window-managers-from-grouping-all-wi.patch Could you guys verify that it works for you? I tested it with XFCE and Unity and it solves the problem. The patch does not implement the AppUserModelIDs feature but since Wine still defaults to Windows XP mode, I assume that most applications wouldn't use this feature anyway. Michael -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to bamf in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/702452 Title: [launcher] Wine applications are wrongly matched Status in BAMF: Confirmed Status in libwnck: Fix Released Status in Unity: Confirmed Status in Wine: Unknown 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bamf/+bug/702452/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
