On 04/03/2011 16:40, Alex Launi wrote: > What application are you using to produce this. I just did gcalctool and > it worked as one would expect. > > ** Changed in: unity > Status: New => Incomplete > > ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > Initially it was with ghb - ie Handbrake GTK as built from source and manually installed into /usr/local/bin. I worked around that by using checkinstall to turn it into a .deb instead and installing it as a local package. Then I could launch it from the Apps Place and keep in launcher and all was well.
I did check and find the same issue with some others, which I now can't remember. Let's see if I can reproduce now... makemkv, as built and installed from makemkv.com. Runs from commandline (invocation: 'makemkv'; its location is /usr/bin/makemkv), appears as a predominantly green launcher icon (bit low res but there). Keep in Launcher, quit, try to relaunch, nothing but a pulsing launcher button. conversely, google-chrome worked flawlessly. As of course did HandBrake after installed as a .deb. That's the main thing I can think of; applications installed as from a .deb work, those built and installed according to the old-school (make && sudo make install) don't. OK, findings from that: I checked gcalctool and that's fine. So then I downloaded the sources to gcalctool (same version), built and installed, with default prefix /usr/local. After hash -r the first gcalctool in $PATH was /usr/local/bin/gcalctool. Ran that with 'gcalctool', launcher still worked fine; ie: keep in launcher, quit, relaunch from launcher, it worked. Removed from launcher (unity crash, needed unity --reset), removed from launcher again, removed OK. Ran the built-from-source version as '/usr/local/bin/gcalctool' and it didn't even turn up in the launcher, as if supplying a path to an executable makes the launcher ignore it? But remember when I was running ghb and makemkv those were invoked without a path and the problem detailed in the bug report happened. So... I don't know, Launcher is Weird. :-) ghb and calctool are gtk apps, I believe makemkv is a qt app... I just tried with xeyes (invocation: 'xeyes') and that demonstrates my problem. That one comes with the distro, try that. :-) -- Rachel -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/727702 Title: launcher won't launch apps originally launched from commandline -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
