Libertine Scope

XApps with Terminal=true in their .desktop file do not run in Libertine

Bug #1591355 reported by Stephen M. Webb
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Libertine
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned
Libertine Scope
Triaged
Medium
Larry Price

Bug Description

Some XApps are terminal-based (as indicated by Terminal=true in their .desktop file), but (a)there is no guarantee there is a terminal app installed and (2) there is no support for launching a terminal app with those applications. An example of a terminal app is Midnight Commander.

Any solution should detect if there is a terminal app installed in the container and handle the launching appropriately, otherwise the apps should end up on a blacklist in the libertine scope.

Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in libertine-scope:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Larry Price (larryprice) wrote :

This should be fixed by new features in U-A-L to launch terminal applications.

Larry Price (larryprice)
Changed in libertine-scope:
assignee: nobody → Larry Price (larryprice)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Larry Price (larryprice)
Changed in libertine-scope:
status: In Progress → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Larry Price (larryprice) wrote :

The solution we came up with previously involved opening up a native terminal app with our application instead of depending on a a libertine-installed terminal. With the ubuntu-terminal-app going into the main image, we may soon be able to actually make this happen. Then again, it may still be prudent to double-back on the idea of launching terminal apps completely from within the confines of the container.

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