Open MakiseKurisu opened 11 months ago
BTW I'm currently using -term
to workaround this issue. The issue's topic is improving user experience, not how to make nwg-drawer working.
Have you tried nwg-drawer -term xterm-kitty
?
BTW: xterm-kitty
should not be in the Exec=
line. Terminal=true
should be enough.
I'm currently using nwg-drawer -term kitty
since xterm-kitty
is not an executable on NixOS.
Here is the content of looking-glass-client.desktop, which is already defined according to your suggestion:
[excalibur@nixos:~]$ cat /nix/store/ymm52bjb2nv3smzm8vjpd670si7gvzhj-looking-glass-client.desktop/share/applications/looking-glass-client.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=looking-glass-client
Icon=lg-logo
Name=Looking Glass Client
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Version=1.4
Looks good to me.
I was troubled by an stupid issue where I can launch other desktop entries but not the Looking Glass Client. Today I decided to investigate it.
Initially I though the desktop entry was bad but it worked with
gkk-launch
. I then launchnwg-drawer
in terminal and found that it is trying to runxterm-kitty
to launch a console program (which looking-glass-client is). I then realized thatnwg-drawer
uses $TERM as the default terminal, which is almost never going to give you a executable file name, since this variable denotes the terminal capabilities, not the binary itself.Unfortunately there is no standard way to indicate the preferred default terminal, but whatever that would be, it is not gonna be $TERM, and such silent failure is confusing, as there is no error in main menu, and no graphical error message when the terminal failed to launch.
I think we could use $TERMINAL as overriding variable instead (used by i3 and suggested in another post, and actually check if this is a valid terminal and tell the user. Or show a graphical error message when the terminal failed to launch.