Broken applications menu/shortcuts with xfce

[kij...@larky.me]

I installed 3.2rc3 from scratch today after having been on 3.1. I
restored my appvms from 3.1 but not my fedora-23 template.

After installing some packages into my (new) fedora-23 template none of
the app shortcuts for any VM based on that template work. They launch
the VM but no applications launch.

qvm-run does work and is the only way I can launch most things right now :)

I have run qvm-sync-appmenus fedora-23, tried deleting/moving
appmenus.whitelist and various folders containing .desktop files and
have only made the problem worse in that there are lots of things
missing from my xfce menu but still none of the things on there work.

I could use some help. Any thoughts/advice would be most welcome.

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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Check to what command those .desktop files points - should have
something like Exec=qvm-run .... Try to call that exact command manually
and see if you'll get some error. If not (but still application do not
launch), add "-p" option to get more details.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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[kij...@larky.me]

On 09/03/2016 05:43 AM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 05:11:38AM +1000, kij...@larky.me wrote:
>> I installed 3.2rc3 from scratch today after having been on 3.1. I
>> restored my appvms from 3.1 but not my fedora-23 template.
>
>> After installing some packages into my (new) fedora-23 template none of
>> the app shortcuts for any VM based on that template work. They launch
>> the VM but no applications launch.
>
>> qvm-run does work and is the only way I can launch most things right now :)
>
>> I have run qvm-sync-appmenus fedora-23, tried deleting/moving
>> appmenus.whitelist and various folders containing .desktop files and
>> have only made the problem worse in that there are lots of things
>> missing from my xfce menu but still none of the things on there work.
>
>> I could use some help. Any thoughts/advice would be most welcome.
>
> Check to what command those .desktop files points - should have
> something like Exec=qvm-run .... Try to call that exact command manually
> and see if you'll get some error. If not (but still application do not
> launch), add "-p" option to get more details.
>
>

Thanks.

With -p I see the error 'no module named qubes' and suddenly it's clear
this is all my fault and I know what I did wrong.

My first step in modifying the fedora template was to link
/usr/bin/python to
python3 rather than python2.

Oops. I didn't think about how that'd affect qubes at all. Perhaps
#!/usr/bin/python2 would make more sense? But no matter.

Changed it back so python > python2. It's all working again. I think I
didn't even need to backup the .desktop files I deleted because
qvm-sync-appmenus does whatever it has to do.