On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 10:24 PM Christopher Sean Morrison via brlcad-devel < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Nov 6, 2018, at 4:21 AM, blubee blubeeme <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I am trying to create a desktop entry for brlcad, launching it from a > shell works just fine but then I have the shell window loitering in the > background. > > > > I create a desktop file that points to the mged binary and launch it, > but that fails if > > Terminal=false > > is set; > > How does it fail exactly — do you just see nothing happen or does a window > flash and disappear or does it crash or show some sort of error? Also, > what version are you trying? That code was just recently changed (about a > 1.5 weeks ago). It seems to just silently fail and nothing happens. > > Mged has code to detect when it’s being run in a terminal and when there > is or is not a controlling terminal, but the various possible cases need to > be tested better. > > in the desktop entry below; changing Terminal=true; mged will start. > If you can post your desktop file, I can give it a try too. > > > Is it possible to launch brlcad w/o the shell? > > That was working, so if it’s not working, it should be possible to get it > working again. If you get a trunk checkout and build, we can try some > things. > Cheers! > Sean > > here's the contents of my .desktop file; [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=7.28.0 Name=BRL-CAD GenericName=3D Modeling Exec=/usr/brlcad/dev-7.28.0/bin/mged Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Modeling;3D; Icon=/usr/brlcad/dev-7.28.0/share/icon/brlcad.ico > > > > _______________________________________________ > BRL-CAD Developer mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel >
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