Some programs can't be started by launcher

shiznix / unity-gentoo

A Gentoo overlay to install the Unity desktop

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Some programs can't be started by launcher #242

Closed renegart closed 3 years ago

renegart commented 3 years ago

On one system I've the issue I can't start some of the programs pinned on it. For instance 'x11-terms/terminator'. On other systems it works. Starting it via 'Alt-F2' works. It's also not possible to find it on Dash.

A complete recompile of the system doesn't help.

How can I figure out what's going wrong?

c4pp4 commented 3 years ago

You can try to launch it via new user account on the same system to exclude user specific settings.

shiznix commented 3 years ago

+1 on trying with a fresh user on the affected system to troubleshoot.

Dash populates itself by looking at /usr/share/applications/*.desktop files but does so using glib if that helps narrow things down.

renegart commented 3 years ago

After deleting *.deskop files under ~/.local/share/applications it works again