Re: Gnome application: Remote Desktop Viewer/vinagre bug
On 2019-05-11, Esteban L <esteban@little-beak.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the Reply Curt,
>
> Sorry in advance to the rest of the group, with my lack of
> "professionalism" and lack of Subject line =) I was very tired, as I am
> sure many can appreciate. Perpetual stage of tiredness.
>
> I have tried editing the file, by removing the -F, then re-activating
> the -F and removing the %U, then, finally, removing both.
>
> In all cases, it does not launch from the application gnome icon. Same
> error, always, missing -F argument.
>
> If i just type %vinagre from the command line, that works. so I will go
> with that for now, until some fix appears with an update.
>
>> When I watch my /var/log/syslog log, I can see this error.
>> May 11 00:59:39 debianWorkstation vinagre-file.desktop[3290]: Missing
>> argument for -F
It would appear you edited the wrong vinagre-file.desktop file.
curty@einstein:~$ locate vinagre-file.desktop
/usr/share/applications/vinagre-file.desktop
It seems a desktop file should either reside in
(user specific)
~/.local/share/applications
or
(global)
/usr/share/applications/
You must have another one somewhere with the '-F %U' business in it; I'm just
now realizing that that combination of letters does indeed invoke to puerile
minds such as my own the royal snafu in spades.
Good luck.
>> When I dig into my /home user, namely:
>> ~/.gnome/apps/vinagre-file.desktop
>> I can find this line:
>> Exec=vinagre -F %U
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