launchy opening EVERYTHING in firefox??

drewbug01 · 2008-10-16 16:24:43

Hey --

I just installed openbox, and to avoide gnome dependencies associated with gnome-do, I installed launchy.

However, it is doing something extremely strange. When I search for an app (lets say, geany), and hit enter, it attempts to open geany with firefox.

Has anyone had this problem?
Ideas on how to fix it?

I found ONE mention of this problem on the launchy bbs, and no one responded to the guy's posts. He's also running arch, btw.

I can post screenshots, if needed.

-- Thanks!

-- Drew

bslagowski · 2008-10-17 03:16:24

Hey, this also is happening to me. I gave up and uninstalled it, unfortunately. If you come up with a solution I'd be interested.

skottish · 2008-10-17 04:01:01

It's using xdg-open to launch things, right? LyX did this too. And with LyX, xdg-open would start Firefox which in turn would try to launch the file using a plug-in. With LyX I went through and changed all of the launchers to avoid xdg-open.

drewbug01 · 2008-10-17 19:37:48

mmmmm

launchy source wrote:

[andrew@the-haystack src]$ pwd
/home/andrew/Desktop/launchy-2.1.2/src
[andrew@the-haystack src]$ grep xdg *
plugin_interface.cpp: // r = "xdg-open \"" + path + "\" " + args + " 2>/dev/null || sh -c \"" + path + "\" " + args;
plugin_interface.cpp: r = "xdg-open \"" + path.trimmed() + "\" " + args.trimmed() + " 2>/dev/null || sh -c \"" + path.trimmed() + " " + args + "\"";
plugin_interface.cpp: proc.start(QString("xdg-mime"),args);
plugin_interface.cpp: proc.start(QString("xdg-mime"),args);
[andrew@the-haystack src]$

And, xdg-utils was pulled in as a dependency.
I wonder if we could patch this to avoid xdg?

*Thinks...*

Maybe I'll try this today.... not that I understand what I'm doing, but if I can fix it then great...

drewbug01 · 2008-10-17 20:42:33

OK
um, well I think I may have somewhat fixed the problem
I removed the references to xdg in that r = statement, and it compiles cleanly and runs programs as you'd expect.
however, i'm not sure if what i've done was actually useful, as i may have killed other functionality with removing xdg.

[andrew@the-haystack ~]$ diff -abB plugin_interface.cpp.edit launchy-2.1.2/src/plugin_interface.cpp
106,107c106,108
< r = "xdg-open \"" + path.trimmed() + "\" " + args.trimmed() + " 2>/dev/null || sh -c \"" + path.trimmed() + " " + args + "\"";
<
---
> // removed xdg-open as it is causing problems on linux
> //r = "xdg-open \"" + path.trimmed() + "\" " + args.trimmed() + " 2>/dev/null || sh -c \"" + path.trimmed() + " " + args + "\"";
> r = "sh -c \"" + path.trimmed() + " " + args + "\"";
[andrew@the-haystack ~]$

drewbug01 · 2008-10-17 20:47:52

OK, yes I've confirmed that it pretty much kills all the other functionality....

fwojciec · 2008-10-17 21:23:38

I just have something like this in my autostart.sh:

export DE=xfce

This fools xdg-open and makes it think that I'm using xfce... I think you need to have exo package installed for this to actually result in files being opened...

drewbug01 · 2008-10-17 23:32:42

I just have something like this in my autostart.sh:
export DE=xfce
This fools xdg-open and makes it think that I'm using xfce... I think you need to have exo package installed for this to actually result in files being opened...

Just tried exporting that variable, recompiled a vanilla launchy, and it didn't help at all :-(

I cleaned up the patch, and it seems to be working for me, for the most part. xdg-open still fails miserable at detecting what it should do with files, but at least it is calling xdg-open again.

QString r;



    //    r = "xdg-open \"" + path + "\" " + args + " 2>/dev/null || sh -c \"" + path + "\" " + args;



    //      r = "xdg-open \"" + path.trimmed() + "\" " + args.trimmed() + " 2>/dev/null || sh -c \"" + path.trimmed() + " "  + args + "\"";

    

   QString path2;

   path2.append("bash -c \"file -L \"" + path.trimmed() + "\"|grep \"ELF\"|| grep \"Bourne\"\""); 

   

   if (proc.execute(path2) == 0)

   {

           r = "sh -c \"" + path.trimmed() + " " + args + "\"";

       }

   else

   {

           r = "xdg-open \"" + path + "\" " + args + " 2>/dev/null";

       }

patch

-- drew

drewbug01 · 2008-10-17 23:45:45

bug reported and patch uploaded upstream
bug:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.p … tid=725839

patch:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.p … tid=725841

drewbug01 · 2008-10-18 04:07:23

patch is updated, check the bug report for the most current one
(hint: i accidentally named the two patches the same thing, the new one does not have a description field)

Falstaff · 2008-11-06 21:58:51

I have the same issue. Did you find a way to solve the issue drewbug01?

bslagowski · 2008-11-07 00:12:30

He uploaded the patch. It's attached to his bug report, which was linked just a couple posts above yours ...

Falstaff · 2008-11-07 05:59:00

bslagowski wrote:

He uploaded the patch. It's attached to his bug report, which was linked just a couple posts above yours ...

oh..

Falstaff · 2008-11-07 19:10:49

forget launchy, "lxpanelcrt run" does the job perfectly!

Last edited by Falstaff (2008-11-07 19:11:36)

maryś · 2009-11-10 21:52:44

I don't know how to add this patch... Anyone could you help me?

steeef · 2009-12-23 18:09:53

Had to educate myself on creating my own packages, but I think I got it.

First, make sure you have base-devel and fakeroot installed (sudo pacman -Sy base-devel fakeroot).
Then, create a directory somewhere, cd to it, and create a file called PKGBUILD with the following in it:

# $Id: PKGBUILD 82 2009-07-17 19:56:55Z aaron $
# Contributor: Andrew Burkett <burkett.andrew@gmail.com>
pkgname=launchy
pkgver=2.1.2
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!"
arch=('i686 x86_64')
url="http://www.launchy.net/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('qt' 'xdg-utils')
makedepends=('gcc' 'boost')
source=("http://downloads.sourceforge.net/launchy/launchy-$pkgver.tar.gz")
md5sums=('235a5ecba34d96c44fc4e69d74fc5817')

build() {
  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
  wget -O plugin_interface.cpp.patch http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=132975\&atid=725839\&file_id=297819\&aid=2175658 || return 1
  cd src
  patch -p0 -i ../plugin_interface.cpp.patch || return 1
  cd ..
  sed -i 's/qmake-qt4/qmake/g' makefile
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
}

Basically, this is the PKGBUILD file from the repository, with commands to download the patch and apply it to source before building.

Now, run makepkg. After the package is built, run "sudo pacman -U <pkgname>" to install. Done!

steeef · 2009-12-23 20:08:50

Hmm. Now Launchy seems to crash on certain executables. Guess I'll switch to gnome-do.

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launchy opening EVERYTHING in firefox??

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