Desktop icons for CLI tools crash with error
Trying to launch a desktop icon for a cli tool such as fish or nvtop results in the following error message.
Terminal kde-prompt not found while trying to run /usr/share/applications/fish.desktop
This can be bypassed by opening konsole first and then typing in the required command to access fish or nvtop but i find the desktop icons more convenient.
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this is a fresh install
what image is this and can you do a
cat /usr/share/applications/fish.desktop
since i cannot replicate this on my systemjust the main bazzite image afaik, here's the output from the command.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=true
# This file is for use in appimages, which rewrite the path.
# Other uses would have to replace these with the correct path.
Exec=fish
Name=fish
Comment=The user-friendly command line shell
Icon=fish
# "Shell" would be the proper category, but it's reserved so we can't use it.
Categories=ConsoleOnly;System;ok i have no idea why it fails for you, let me fire up a VM and check
also if you want to do multiline code lines you can do
```language
text
text
text
```
language is optional 🙂
ahh sweet, yeah i'm not great with markdown lol
np, i saw how you did it and dont want you to suffer that again 😄
the language part will give you highlighting for the code, .desktop and .conf files are ini language
i was using bazzite a day or two ago on the same system and fish was working fine then, so i wasn't sure exactly what'd happened
my system image is behind by 24 hours so might be why (normal image doesnt work on my weird hardware so i need to use a custom image)
hence why i need to use a VM to test
ahh yeah np
any other information or logs you'd want me to collect?
not that i can think of, will see if i can replicate it first before i head out
need to just set up the VM first as i havent gotten around to do that, been busy with other things since i joined the team
oh neat, what're you using to virtualise it?
virt-manager
its the virtualization suite we support (plus its the one i use as i do some advanced virtualization stuff on my machine)
i gotta check out the documentation for bazzite and ublue more when i get a chance
very cool desktop model but it does mean i have to unlearn some stuff i've gotten used to
i will have to get back to this later as rebasing to bazzite is taking ages in my vm and i have to head out
This is my fault, we have a big update about to go live and one change slipped through
next update will fix it
Solution
In the meantime, just change your default terminal in KDE settings
should be enough to correct this
ah should only affect new installs then right now until the rest arrives
rebuilding main right now w/ that corrected
yup switching to konsole from kde-prompt fixed it