12583 – xterm is used to open files with desktop entry with Terminal=true

xterm is used to open files with desktop entry with Terminal=true

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RESOLVED: DUPLICATE

Priority:
Medium

Severity:
normal

Product:
Thunar

Component:

Core

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Description dnord 2016-05-22 07:28:25 CEST

How to reproduce:
* Open C++ source with Thunar using Vim
Happened: Vim opened in xterm
Expected: Vim opened in default terminal emulator (xfce4-terminal in my case)
Distro: Ubuntu 16.04
Version: Thunar 1.6.10

Comment 1 Viktor Odintsev editbugs

2018-04-22 09:52:27 CEST

Thunar uses g_app_info_launch to run applications. For terminal applications, it will look for gnome-terminal, xterm and other hardcoded terminal emulators and try to run using them https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/blob/d0364b443805dcb832c200fcf8bf58a64fdf3e7d/gio/gdesktopappinfo.c#L2476

Comment 2 Theo Linkspfeifer editbugs

2019-07-06 23:36:22 CEST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14309 ***

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Bug #12583

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