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wf-panel doesn't seem to open certain apps #229
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I've been unable to replicate these issues, same version of package from AUR. Looking at the It might be worth checking if this link exists by running If the list of Gtk apps that specify StartupNotify and the list of apps that won't run are equal, this might potentially be a dbus issue. |
@trigg thanks for taking a look. So, I found the dbus services files in
and running any of the exec statements for these files (e.g. I also now found |
LXQt had faced a similar issue. Few users were unable to start Edit: Cc: @soreau |
@marcusbritanicus thanks for the info and link. So I tried to set Based on the thread you linked it seems like the LXQt people gave in and merged an exec fallback here so that if dbus fails it runs the exec line. |
@tyressk While I'm not very sure, one thing you might be able to do instead of editing the desktop files in /use/share/applications is copy the offending desktop to ~/.local/share/applications and do your edits. Then you'll not have to worry about the desktop being overwritten during upgrades. |
I am. This is absolutely what you should be doing to keep local edits of .desktop files. I have a helper script I use to remove launchers I don't use here, which works on this premise.. |
Thanks for your responses @marcusbritanicus and @trigg . I only temporarily edited the .desktop file and put them back. I might actually end up copying them to my ~/.local/share/applications like you both mentioned (I also keep some wonky electron .desktop files there where I put the wayland flags on). I'll still try to figure out why I can't run these |
I'd advise double-checking your wayfire settings as per this segment of the wiki |
@trigg this worked for me!
I actually ignored this part in the beginning because I didn't notice Gtk apps being slow, plus I had also removed xdg-desktop-portal while I was debugging. Thanks! Edit: Wonder if the wiki needs to be updated to include this issue as well? |
Feel free to add more information to the wiki if you think it needs to cover more :) But I wouldn't link directly to this issue, better describe with words in what other ways the issue can manifest as. |
Certain apps like cheese, font-manager, gnome-text-editor don't open from the wf-panel menu with no error or warning. Running the .desktop files directly with
gio launch
works. No luck yet figuring during debugging but common denominator seems to be gtk(3?). Tested on another launcher (nwg-drawer) and these .desktop files work as well.Tested with fresh .ini files for both wf-shell and wayfire.
version: 0.8.1-6 Arch AUR
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