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bandango

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Registered: 2015-10-20

Posts: 6

Gnome's Files ,Wayland, Application launch questions

Does anybody knows how to make Gnome's "Files" Manager to launch non-gnome applications under wayland?

It seems that Files file manager  is only able to launch Gnome applications, for instance i am only able to open videos and text files
using gnome applications. Apps like VLC and Kate just don't work.

I can launch non-Gnome graphical apps from the gnome terminal though .

milli-961227

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Registered: 2014-04-15

Posts: 13

Re: Gnome's Files ,Wayland, Application launch questions

Hi,

I don't know exactly what to do in order to solve this problem (which I can confirm by the way), but I don't think it's Files' fault. When launching Nautilus from the command line and then attempting to open a file via double-click, I get the following for a *.mp3 file:

[milli@milli-notebook ~]$ nautilus
VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax) (revision 2.2.1-0-ga425c42)
xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
[0000000002623588] core interface error: no suitable interface module
[00000000024e5158] core libvlc error: interface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed
[00000000024e5158] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0000000002627828] qt4 interface error: Could not connect to X server
[0000000002627828] skins2 interface error: cannot initialize OSFactory
[0000000002627828] [cli] lua interface: Listening on host "*console".
VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax)
Command Line Interface initialized. Type `help' for help.
> Shutting down.
[0000000002627828] [cli] lua interface: Requested shutdown.

For a *.odt file, for which the associated application is LibreOffice:

[milli@milli-notebook ~]$ nautilus
Failed to open display
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx

The problem they're facing is that, for whatever reason, they cannot connect to the display server (with VLC mentioning that it tries to connect to the X server instead of Wayland). I don't know whether LibreOffice has the same problem or whether it actually tries to use Wayland but can't establish a proper connection. I guess the problem lies at application-level and therefore has to be solved for each application individually.

If not, I'd be glad for solutions too!

dancon

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Registered: 2015-11-19

Posts: 1

Re: Gnome's Files ,Wayland, Application launch questions

Some days ago i discover that LibreOffice was not more working on Gnome-Shell wayland session.
When i double click on a libreoffice file in gnome-files nothing happens

I've done som more test with libreoffice

1) If you launch libreoffice --calc from terminal nothing happens;
2) If you launch libreoffice --calc file-name.ods libreoffice starts and works perfectly;
3) If you launch gnome-open file-name.ods libreoffice starts and works perfectly;
4) If you launch xdg-open file-name.ods libreoffice starts and works perfectly;
5) If you double click on a file with libreoffice open the file is loaded perfectly

So isn't a mime-type problem or xdg-open and gnome-open will not works.
Looks like a double problem
1) libreoffice --calc should works
2) gnome-file should start libreoffice, the same way gnome-open start it.

Moreover
If in Evolution click on aa link the link isn't opened at all in the browser, whether the browser is runnig or not.