On 2019-05-11, Esteban L <este...@little-beak.com> wrote: > 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. > >> 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 It would appear you edited the wrong vinagre-file.desktop file.
curty@einstein:~$ locate vinagre-file.desktop /usr/share/applications/vinagre-file.desktop It seems a desktop file should either reside in (user specific) ~/.local/share/applications or (global) /usr/share/applications/ You must have another one somewhere with the '-F %U' business in it; I'm just now realizing that that combination of letters does indeed invoke to puerile minds such as my own the royal snafu in spades. Good luck. >> When I dig into my /home user, namely: >> ~/.gnome/apps/vinagre-file.desktop >> I can find this line: >> Exec=vinagre -F %U -- Mrs Hessler, the teacher, considered me her employee, and I played along with this to keep the frown off that somewhat shapeless face she had crowned with an inappropriate platinum pixie. I regularly fed her made-up news items from imaginary newspapers, and she always bought it. ‘Drone Strike on a Strip Club’, for example. -- Thomas McGuane, https://granta.com/grandma-and-me/
