Bug 24317

Summary:	lftp (Mate DE) when invoked from application launcher menu does nothing
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ben McMonagle <westel>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lists.jjorge, marja11
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	7beta2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	lftp	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Ben McMonagle 2019-02-06 01:54:56 CET

Description of problem: invoking lftp from Mate DE application launcher menu does nothing. in other DE it opens a terminal window with this prompt: lftp :~>

invoking lftp from a terminal (mate terminal) results  in a prompt: lftp :~> 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Mageia-7-beta2-i586.iso
DATE.txt: Wed Jan 30 22:29:58 CET 2019


How reproducible: every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1.install mate de from above .iso
2.attempt to launch lftp from application launcher menu 
3.

Ben McMonagle 2019-02-06 01:55:17 CET

Keywords: (none) => 7beta2

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2019-02-07 08:14:56 CET

Assinging to the registered lftp maintainer.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => lists.jjorge
Source RPM: (none) => lftp

Comment 2 José Jorge 2019-02-07 10:59:33 CET

This seems a Mate bug : lftp binary asks for a terminal if no one is set. Seems that Mate exposes a terminal where the is no one. You can probably see it if you cathc the xsession errors.

I think this deserves an upstream bug report against Mate.

José Jorge 2019-02-07 11:00:07 CET

CC: (none) => lists.jjorge
Assignee: lists.jjorge => pkg-bugs

Comment 3 Jani Välimaa 2019-02-07 18:26:51 CET

I think lftp uses glib to get terminal. In glib terminals are searched by the following order:
1. gnome-terminal
2. xfce4-terminal
3. nxterm
4. color-xterm
5. rxvt
6. dtterm
7. xterm

So, if any of mentioned terminals are installed, launching from app menu should work.

Comment 4 José Jorge 2019-02-07 18:50:25 CET

(In reply to Jani Välimaa from comment #3)
> So, if any of mentioned terminals are installed, launching from app menu
> should work.

It must be clever than that, it opens konsole under Plasma desktop...

Comment 5 Ben McMonagle 2019-02-07 19:48:36 CET

(In reply to Jani Välimaa from comment #3)
> I think lftp uses glib to get terminal. In glib terminals are searched by
> the following order:
> 1. gnome-terminal
> 2. xfce4-terminal
> 3. nxterm
> 4. color-xterm
> 5. rxvt
> 6. dtterm
> 7. xterm
> 
> So, if any of mentioned terminals are installed, launching from app menu
> should work.

If installation is multi DE, i.e, all DE from .iso, still does nothing.
this is where I discovered issue.
I then installed just Mate DE to see if it was specific to Mate, and it is.

Comment 6 Ben McMonagle 2019-02-07 19:52:29 CET

qualifying above statement

If installation is multi DE, i.e, all DE from .iso, only in Mate LFTP does nothing.

Comment 7 Jani Välimaa 2019-02-07 20:44:29 CET

Added mate-terminal to supported terminals in GIO (glib2.0-2.58.3-2.mga7). Please test when the build finishes.

Comment 8 Ben McMonagle 2019-02-12 09:04:16 CET

fixed

thanks

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED