Re: Can't launch anything

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 21:21, Frederik<scumm_fredo gmx net> wrote:
> Frederik wrote:
>> When I try to launch an application or document from Gnome Shell it
>> doesn't work. The mouse cursor is spinning for a while but nothing
>> happens. No error message on the log.
>>
>> The AppInfo object seems to be correct (right commandline etc.) and
>> 'appInfo.launch_uris(...)' in 'docInfo.js' returns 'true'.
>
> Is it possible that it has something to do with DISPLAY? Newer versions
> of GLib have changed behaviour in GDesktopAppInfo#launch_uris()
> regarding display settings:
>
> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/glib/commit/?id=d3d81f74c5c227fb17494c0388ede1e83557a7e1
>
> Is anyone sucessfully running Gnome Shell on Ubuntu Jaunty with working
> launching of documents and apps?
>
Yes, it works for me. Just compiled everything. Note that I use the
jhbuild with the normal gnome moduleset and also have all stuff like
gtk+, glib built from latest git

Jaap