Bug 462232 - Using konsole as preferred terminal triggers a bug when Terminal=true in an application's desktop file
Summary: Using konsole as preferred terminal triggers a bug when Terminal=true in an a...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: exo
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Kevin Fenzi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-14 16:19 UTC by François Cami
Modified: 2008-09-15 22:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-09-15 22:18:04 UTC
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Description François Cami 2008-09-14 16:19:56 UTC
Description of problem:
 XFCE allows the user to set any application as the preferred Terminal app. When using KDE's konsole instead of the XFCE-provided Terminal, launching any application which has Terminal=true in its desktop file fails, a standard Terminal (with shell) is launched instead.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 xfdesktop-4.4.2-3.fc9.i386

How reproducible:
 Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch an XFCE Session ;
2. right-click on desktop, go to Settings, Preferred Applications
3. select the Utilities tab, and choose konsole as Terminal Emulator
4. install wings ( wings-0.99.02-2.fc9.i386 ) which has Terminal=true in its .desktop file
5. right-click on desktop, go to Graphics, Wings 3D
  
Actual results:
 A Konsole terminal with a bash shell is launched.

Expected results:
 A Konsole terminal and Wings 3D are launched, with Wings' output in the terminal.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2008-09-15 21:00:09 UTC
Was the 'konsole' option in step 3 already there? 
It looks like that was misdefined, and Xfce doesn't provide it... 

Go to the Utilities tab again and select 'Other' and enter: 
konsole -e '%s' 
as the command. 

Does that cause it to work as expected?

Comment 2 François Cami 2008-09-15 22:14:58 UTC
No, the konsole option probably wasn't there in the first place, I had 
konsole "%s"
as the command.

konsole -e '%s' 
causes everything to work, yes.

Thanks.

Comment 3 Kevin Fenzi 2008-09-15 22:18:04 UTC
Excellent. Glad it could be fixed.


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