Bug: Erroneous PATH for some application icons.

2012-02-15 Thread Juan Giordana
Hello again, I reported this a while ago [1]. Maybe someone wants to check it out. When some applications are started from shell scripts or symbolic links, instead of being launched from their own binary files, the value of the field "Application path and arguments" in the settings dialog of thei

Re: Bug: Erroneous PATH for some application icons.

2012-02-17 Thread Renan Traba
I got this bug too, this happen when the application uses a startup script, and the binary is in another place outside of the user PATH I was thinking about it, the Unity uses *.desktop files as reference for applications should we start thinking about using it too ? instead of using WMHINTS, I thi

Re: Bug: Erroneous PATH for some application icons.

2012-04-02 Thread Rodolfo kix Garcia
Hi, about this problem, a little explanation, for example for firefox. 1. On my debian, I launch mozilla firefox using a terminal and typing "iceweasel" (name of firefox on debian) 2. iceweasel is a script. This script do "exec /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin" (see man exec). 3. X11 see that t

Re: Bug: Erroneous PATH for some application icons.

2012-04-02 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:05:41PM +0200, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote: > > 3. X11 see that the program running is "/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin" This is not quite correct. X11 isn't "seeing" it, the application (probably via the toolkit) is explicitly specifying it by setting the WM_COMMAND proper