Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 462230
a terminal appears instead of wings when using the XFCE menu
Last modified: 2008-09-17 00:16:17 EDT
Description of problem: Selecting "Graphics/Wings 3D" in the XFCE menu results in launching the Terminal application. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): wings-0.99.02-2.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. right-click on XFCE background to use the menu 2. select Graphics 3. select Wings 3D Actual results: The application selected as terminal in XFCE is launched. Expected results: Wings3D should be launched. Additional info: This patch solves the problem. --- /usr/share/applications/fedora-wings.desktop~ 2008-09-14 17:36:58.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/share/applications/fedora-wings.desktop 2008-09-14 17:36:58.000000000 +0200 @@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ Exec=wings Icon=wings.png -Terminal=true +Terminal=false Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 The problem seems XFCE-related : setting Terminal=true in pidgin's desktop file reproduces the problem as well, so I am going to open a bug against XFCE as well. The fact is, wings is the only application in my system to ship with a Terminal=true entry in its desktop file.
Note, this is only reproductible if the Terminal set in XFCE's "Preferred Applications" is KDE's konsole ; everything works as expected with XFCE's Terminal.
Since this seems to be related to using XFCE + Konsole, I've opened https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462232 . Please feel free to close this bug if Wings 3D really needs being launched in a Terminal.
Closing, because using konsole -e '%s' instead of konsole "%s" makes Wings work again. However I still do not see why it needs to be opened in a Terminal, except for the debug information.