gnome launcher in terminal doesn't

Bug #348725 reported by RichardNeill
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Declined for Jaunty by Pedro Villavicencio

Bug Description

When an application is set to run in terminal, it doesn't!

1. Right click desktop.
2. Create Launcher.
   Type: Application in Terminal
   Name: ls
  Command: /bin/ls
  Comment: list files

3. Here is the resulting .desktop file:

 $ cat ls.desktop
 #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

 [Desktop Entry]
  Encoding=UTF-8
  Version=1.0
 Type=Application
 Terminal=true
  Name[en_US]=ls
 Exec=/bin/ls
 Comment[en_US]=list files
 Name=ls
 Comment=list files

4. Click on it, and NOTHING happens. (or so it seems)

5. Further investigation (eg with sleep 10) shows that the command is running in a terminal, and then instantly auto-closing the terminal afterwards!

We need an option to keep the terminal open after the command exits (which should be the default). Also, right-clicking an existing launcher should let you set whether it runs in terminal or not.

Tags: likely-dup
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for your bug report, what ubuntu version do you use? that's an upstream issue and should be sent to GNOME

Changed in gnome-desktop (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
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RichardNeill (ubuntu-richardneill) wrote :

Thanks for your quick reply. I've just upgraded to Jaunty beta - this is a fully-updated version of Jaunty, as of today.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the launcher seems correctly written but nautilus doesn't do what is expected, the bug is to send to bugzilla.gnome.org

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

I've seen this before, likely a duplicate, will look upstream.

tags: added: likely-dup
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

found the upstream report: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324407 ; which is being tracked on bug 157266 marking this a duplicate, thanks.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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