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Re: Gnome application: Remote Desktop Viewer/vinagre bug

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Thanks for the Reply Curt,

Sorry in advance to the rest of the group, with my lack of
"professionalism" and lack of Subject line =) I was very tired, as I am
sure many can appreciate. Perpetual stage of tiredness. 

I have tried editing the file, by removing the -F, then re-activating
the -F and removing the %U, then, finally, removing both.

In all cases, it does not launch from the application gnome icon. Same
error, always, missing -F argument.

If i just type %vinagre from the command line, that works. so I will go
with that for now, until some fix appears with an update.

-----Original Message-----
From: Curt <curty@free.fr>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: (unknown)
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 12:26:32 -0000 (UTC)

On 2019-05-11, Esteban L <esteban@little-beak.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have this weird situation, I can't figure out.
> 
> I can launch the Remote Desktop Viewer from the command line:
> 
> %vinagre
> 
> and it launches and is fully functional.
> 
> When I try to launch it from the "desktop icons" or the icons that
> are
> present within gnome, i cannot. 
> 
> A little bar appear on the top of the menu bar, that it is working on
> opening, then nothing, closes. No window ever makes it to my X-
> window.
> 
> When I watch my /var/log/syslog log, I can see this error.
> May 11 00:59:39 debianWorkstation vinagre-file.desktop[3290]: Missing
> argument for -F 
> 
> When I dig into my /home user, namely:
> ~/.gnome/apps/vinagre-file.desktop
> I can find this line:
> Exec=vinagre -F %U
> 
> 
> So after all this digging, I can only conclude it is some type of
> gnome
> error. Unfortunately, I don't know Gnome very well, since it has
> almost
> always just worked as expected.
> 
> What does the %U variable mean? user? 
> 
> Any tips hints or otherwise would be greatly appreciated. =)
> 
> 

curty@einstein:~$ vinagre -F
Missing argument for -F

The -F flag is supposed to be followed by the name(s) of a vnc file.

There are some pretty old bugs flying around like yours.

I would edit the desktop file.

 Exec=vinagre %U

seems to work from the command line (the app opens), although a
dialogue box(?)
appears, saying:

       Connection closed
 Connection to host %U was closed.

Not a deal-breaker.

https://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/desktop-files.html
.en

 Table 1-2 Exec variables

 Add...	Accepts...
 %f	a single filename.
 %F	multiple filenames.
 %u	a single URL.
 %U	multiple URLs.
 %d	a single directory. Used in conjunction with %f to locate a
file.
 %D	multiple directories. Used in conjunction with %F to locate
files.
 %n	a single filename without a path.
 %N	multiple filenames without paths.
 %k	a URI or local filename of the location of the desktop file.
 %v	the name of the Device entry.

Good luck.

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(none) Esteban L <esteban@little-beak.com> - 2019-05-11 07:10 +0200
  Re: (unknown) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-11 14:30 +0200
    Re: Gnome application: Remote Desktop Viewer/vinagre bug Esteban L <esteban@little-beak.com> - 2019-05-11 20:30 +0200
      Re: Gnome application: Remote Desktop Viewer/vinagre bug Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-11 22:10 +0200
  Re: David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2019-05-13 12:50 +0200

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