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Bug 2809 - xdg-open fail to fork and launches application of other desktop, in certain cases
Summary: xdg-open fail to fork and launches application of other desktop, in certain c...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1630
Alias: None
Product: TDE
Classification: Unclassified
Component: tdebase (show other bugs)
Version: R14.0.x [Trinity]
Hardware: amd64 Linux
: P5 normal
Assignee: Timothy Pearson
URL:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2017-08-21 12:53 CDT by wofgdkncxojef
Modified: 2017-08-27 15:32 CDT (History)
2 users (show)

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TDE Version String: R14.0.4
Application Version:
Application Name: system tray

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Description wofgdkncxojef 2017-08-21 12:53:56 CDT 
variety is a gtk applet for wallpaper slideshows.
With the applet, you can also launch the current
wallpaper in an image viewer, for example gwenview.

In TDE, the viewer fails to fork, and the thread of the applet get's stuck, until the viewer is closed. The problem is not the image viewer. In MATE and many other DE the viewer forks properly, even with gwenview of trinity.

(variety actually uses the default gtk image viewer)
Comment 1 wofgdkncxojef 2017-08-23 05:31:41 CDT 
ok, actually this was a bug in xdg-open.

I have MATE and trinity installed.
In a new trinity account, xdg-open will not fork and will use the image viewer of MATE, same behavior in variety. In my regular account, launching from konsole works correctly, but it still behaves in a broken way with variety.
Comment 2 wofgdkncxojef 2017-08-27 15:32:08 CDT 
actually a bug in variety when xdg-open uses generic method.
xdg-open is not supposed to fork, it's just the apps that it calls generally do.

the real underlying problem, is that xdg-open doesn't support trinity.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1630 ***