R3.0: xterm doesn't launch from the menu in minimal VMs

[andrewdavidwong]

Attempting to launch xterm in fedora-21-minimal (or any AppVM based on it) from the KDE menu results in the cursor animating for a while and nothing else happening. This is the command the menu is trying to use:

qvm-run -q --tray -a fedora-21-minimal -- 'qubes-desktop-run /usr/share/applications/xterm.desktop'

Substituting this command works instantly:

qvm-run -q --tray -a fedora-21minimal -- 'xterm'

Users might try to fix this themselves but substituting the non-working command for the working command, but the menu commands get regenerated quite often, overwriting user changes.

(Note: The same problem has happened before, but in that case the cause was the missing pygobject3-base package. That package is now included in fedora-21-minimal by default, so something else must be the culprit this time. Same problem; different cause.)

[marmarek]

Would I surprise you that this is also fixed in current-testing
repository?

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

[marmarek]

Would I surprise you that this is also fixed in current-testing
repository?

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?