Ubuntu
unity8 package

GTK apps fail to start under Unity8

Bug #1526095 reported by Drwd on 2015-12-14

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	unity8 (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Error to start, check out the pic.

Revision history for this message

Drwd (gallito-loquito-2012) wrote on 2015-12-14:

screenshot20151215_000636551.png Edit (159.2 KiB, image/png)

Revision history for this message

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2015-12-15: Re: Wireshark fails to start under Unity8

Thanks for the bug report.

Connecting 3rd party client apps to Unity8 requires them to have something like this string on their command line:
--desktop_file_hint=unity8
because Unity8 will actually inspect the command line of the app.

So if you're lucky, your app supports '--' and you can go:
wireshark -- --desktop_file_hint=unity8

If you're unlucky then that won't work and you need either the app/toolkit to add '--' support, or to ask the Unity8 team nicely to remove the desktop_file_hint requirement.

Please let us know how it goes...

summary:	- Wireshark + Wireshark fails to start under Unity8
affects:	mir (Ubuntu) → unity8 (Ubuntu)
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

Revision history for this message

Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote on 2015-12-15:

More than that, wireshark is a GTK app, which is not supported yet.

Revision history for this message

Drwd (gallito-loquito-2012) wrote on 2015-12-15:

Hi. I'm unlucky and it does not work, I'm testing many package and repository under Ubuntu Touch.

My device is BQ E 4.5 with OTA 8 system.

Why is not supported yet?

Regards.

Revision history for this message

Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote on 2015-12-17:

Because we didn't have the time yet to integrate GTK apps into the new world, is all.

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
summary:	- Wireshark fails to start under Unity8 + GTK apps fail to start under Unity8