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xfce4-taskmanager 1.6.0: does NOT fetch GUI name of all my GUI applications

Version information

  • openSUSE Leap 15.6
  • xfce4-taskmanager 1.6.0

Steps to reproduce

  1. open Taskmanager
  2. open Bleachbit by Xfce-Terminal: bleachbit &, open Xfce-DOSBox by Terminal: dosbox &, open Xfce-MenuLibre by Terminal: menulibre &
  3. look at Taskmanager for corresponding application, cf. PID: PID each is shown, but not GUI name of application

Expected outcome

  • show Bleachbit resp. dosbox resp. MenuLibre in Taskmanager as GUI name

Cross Check

  • A colleague did a cross check:

Using the same applications under KDE Plasma with systemmonitor instead of XFCE’s taskmanger, the application names show up properly. So it seems like an issue with xfce4-taskmanager.

Notes

  • There may be more GUI applications with this issue. But these are the applications showing the issue on my system. As stated by the cross check, xfce4-taskmanager is affected, some other taskmanagers not.

Screenshots

Bleachbit

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DOSBox

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MenuLibre

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