On 05/11/2024 18:46, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
Alter the menu item to run a simple, non-AppImage, graphical
program, e.g. /usr/bin/xclock. If that works, add the -digital
argument to learn if arguments can be given.
Ran Ralphs suggestion for xclock fine,
Good. Including the -digital argument as a second test?
Interesting. With the -digital added it failed as unable to find program.
the path in the menu item is
"/usr/local/bin/arduino-ide_2.3.3.Appimage --no-sandbox" and
when i tried to start it I see an error message that it is not
found.
Browsed to usr/local/bin/ and ran the program from terminal and it
worked, albeit with some errors that i ignored.
peterm@peterm-kubuntu:/usr/local/bin$ arduino-ide_2.3.3.AppImage --no-sandbox
Arduino IDE 2.3.3
Don't change directory to /usr/local/bin as the menu item probably isn't
doing that. At the shell prompt, do what you're asking the menu item to
do:
cd
/usr/local/bin/arduino-ide_2.3.3.Appimage
peterm@peterm-kubuntu:~$ cd
peterm@peterm-kubuntu:~$ /usr/local/bin/arduino-ide_2.3.3.Appimage
bash: /usr/local/bin/arduino-ide_2.3.3.Appimage: No such file or directory
peterm@peterm-kubuntu:~$
Is the whole string treated as the path. Try using
"/usr/local/bin/arduino-ide_2.3.3.Appimage" instead just to see if
it starts, even if it later fails because of the sandbox's
constraints.
seen above, didn't work. Added it back to menu item:
"Launching Arduino-IDE failed
Could not find the program '/usr/local/bin/arduino-ide_2.3.3.Appimage' "
Is the /usr/local/bin/arduino-ide_2.3.3.Appimage file readable and
executable? ‘chmod a+rx
/usr/local/bin/arduino-ide_2.3.3.Appimage’.
Yes. This gets done ever since I used my first Appimage!
These are unanswered.
That ‘arduino-ide_2.3.3.AppImage --no-sandbox’ worked when the current
directory was /usr/local/bin doesn't mean the arduino-ide_2.3.3.AppImage
which was run was the one in that directory. Perhaps you've another
elsewhere. What gets run depends on your PATH. What's the output of:
cd /usr/local/bin
echo $PATH
type arduino-ide_2.3.3.AppImage
stat arduino-ide_2.3.3.AppImage
peterm@peterm-kubuntu:~$ cd /usr/local/bin
peterm@peterm-kubuntu:/usr/local/bin$ echo $PATH
/home/peterm/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/home/peterm/
.local/bin peterm@peterm-kubuntu:/usr/local/bin$ type
arduino-ide_2.3.3.AppImage arduino-ide_2.3.3.AppImage is
/usr/local/bin/arduino-ide_2.3.3.AppImage peterm@peterm-kubuntu:/usr/local/bin$
stat arduino-ide_2.3.3.AppImage File: arduino-ide_2.3.3.AppImage Size:
190624130 Blocks: 372328 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 8,7
Inode: 1837989 Links: 1 Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root)
Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2024-11-05 15:55:20.771128388 +0000 Modify:
2024-10-31 19:25:50.745678601 +0000 Change: 2024-10-31 19:25:50.745678601 +0000
Birth: 2024-10-31 19:25:48.893679345 +0000 peterm@peterm-kubuntu:/usr/local/bin$
Have you a text file .xsession-errors in your home directory which grows
over time? You could ‘tail -f .xsession-errors’ to watch it and run the
broken menu item to see if an error appears.
No Error appeared.
Really, we don't know what this menu editor is doing. Presumably,
creating a FreeDesktop file under your home directory somewhere
containing the definition. ~/.config/menus? Recent configuration files
would probably be at the top of the list:
cd
find .??* -type f -printf '%T@ %Tc %p\n' | sort -nr | less
1730841651.6303174020 Tue 05 Nov 2024 21:20:51 GMT
.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc 1730841637.3343401440 Tue 05
Nov 2024 21:20:37 GMT .cache/plasma-svgelements 1730841602.9573947110 Tue 05
Nov 2024 21:20:02 GMT .thunderbird/s15ank2c.Default User/AlternateServices.txt
1730841581.4974286900 Tue 05 Nov 2024 21:19:41 GMT .config/plasmashellrc
1730841580.8744296750 Tue 05 Nov 2024 21:19:40 GMT
.cache/ksycoca5_en-GB_Ooo9q2_kJO821yytcatiX7iSXuA= 1730841579.7344314780 Tue 05
Nov 2024 21:19:39 GMT .local/share/applications/Arduino-IDE.desktop Went to the
last one and opened with kate:
[Desktop Entry] Comment[en_GB]=19/12/23 Comment=19/12/23
Exec=/usr/local/bin/arduino-ide_2.3.3.Appimage GenericName[en_GB]=IDE 2.3.3
Appimage GenericName=IDE 2.3.3 Appimage MimeType= Name[en_GB]=Arduino-IDE
Name=Arduino-IDE NoDisplay=false Path= StartupNotify=true Terminal=false
TerminalOptions= Type=Application X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false X-KDE-Username=
Added the path to the PATH= line and removed it from the Exec= line, also added
the --no-sandbox to the 'parameters' field, but it still failed to start
because it couldn't find the path.
Will try again tomorrow. head booming and I have missed the LUG on-line mtg.
--- Peter
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