Apps will launch from terminal, but not from GUI?

lswest · 2009-01-27 20:16:17

Well, I assume this is the most appropriate place to post this issue. I have a triple-boot system (Ubuntu 64x, ArchLinux 64x and Vista 32x), ubuntu and Arch share a home folder on a separate partition. Basically my problem is this:

Some applications that I launch (dropbox is the main one I can recall, though I know it happened with another app not too long ago) from the GUI (using gnome-do in this case or openbox's autostart.sh file) does nothing, whilst using the same launcher (symlink in /usr/bin/ to the script in /opt/dropbox/) from the terminal launches it without incident.

Something that may or may not be related is the fact that Skype, when launched from GUI, seems to be using a different font-preference on launch (ugly TK-like fonts) compared to the nice DejaVu Serif fonts it uses (which I want it to use) when launched from the terminal. I posted a thread about that in the Arch64 sub-section of the forums, in case anyone's interested in helping me with that problem as well.

Xiong Chiamiov · 2009-01-28 00:17:05

Sharing a /home between two distros with package versions as different as Ubuntu and Arch seems like a bad idea to me. Personally, I have all of my shared stuff mounted in /media, and then I symlink in all of the non-. directories.

What happens if you run just using the normal run dialog (alt+f2), rather than through gnome-do? That'll be a lot closer to how you run it in the terminal.

lswest · 2009-01-28 06:37:31

Xiong Chiamiov wrote:

Sharing a /home between two distros with package versions as different as Ubuntu and Arch seems like a bad idea to me. Personally, I have all of my shared stuff mounted in /media, and then I symlink in all of the non-. directories.
What happens if you run just using the normal run dialog (alt+f2), rather than through gnome-do? That'll be a lot closer to how you run it in the terminal.

I'm running an openbox session, not gnome, but gmrun brings the same results. The funny thing is I didn't have this problem last time I had Ubuntu and Archlinux running side by side (same programs and configuration in Ubuntu as before too). I guess on the weekend I'll try it again with a fresh /home and see if it works.

Thanks for the reply,
Lswest

On a side note: I realize there's a large version difference between Ubuntu and Arch, which is why the only applications Arch and Ubuntu share are Nautilus, Gnome-do (same version), Dropbox and Skype (static skype though, installed to /opt/), well OO.o too.

*EDIT* Well, I decided to not wait for the weekend. I re-installed Arch with a seperate /home partition again, completely fresh, both ext4, only copied the config file over for my openbox menus/autostart, fonts.conf and my .zshrc The rest is per-applications stuff (firefox profile, for example) and shouldn't affect it in any way whatsoever. However, I still have the same behaviour, with Skype and dropbox mainly.

*Edit 2* Fixed the skype issue, had forgotten to move skype.conf to /etc/dbus-1/system.d/skype.conf, the dropbox issue also seems fixed, though nothing had changed (it didn't autostart since I used "dropbox" for the symlink not dropboxd, my bad )

Last edited by lswest (2009-01-29 17:27:10)

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#1 2009-01-27 20:16:17

Apps will launch from terminal, but not from GUI?

#2 2009-01-28 00:17:05

Re: Apps will launch from terminal, but not from GUI?

#3 2009-01-28 06:37:31

Re: Apps will launch from terminal, but not from GUI?

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