Ubuntu
gnome-panel package

Cannot run custom launcher

Bug #134779 reported by Justin Dugger
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

I have a custom application launcher, so that I can connect to a remote screen session at the click of a button.It's a simple command:
   ssh -t cislinux.cis.ksu.edu screen -d -r

Recently, this stopped working for gutsy. When I click on it, an error message pops up, saying:
   Could not launch application
   failed to execute child process -x (no such file or directory)

My guess is that -x tells gnome term to execute a program, and that somehow the launcher has lost the gnome-terminal part.

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Justin Dugger (jldugger) wrote :

Changing it to a regular app launcher and prefixing gnome-terminal -x returns the previous behavior, if this helps.

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Justin Dugger (jldugger) wrote :

On further investigation, this appears to be related to the gnome default applications tool. It seems to have decided that I had a custom default.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported.. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any information missing that you can add or to see if there is a work around. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in gnome-control-center:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: New → Invalid
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