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 <cu...@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 <este...@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.
