[VA 9.1 on Linux] Environments reports "/bin/bash: nautilus: command not found" to console

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Richard Sargent

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Jun 25, 2019, 2:02:13 PM6/25/19
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This was the result of selecting one of the images from the list (the only image, in my case) and clicking on the folder icon.
I am guessing Gnome is not installed.

Installed desktops list?
$ ls -l /usr/share/xsessions
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2573 Feb 17  2018 icewm-session.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5465 Sep 21  2016 xfce.desktop


Mariano Martinez Peck

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Jun 25, 2019, 2:07:27 PM6/25/19
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The only time I have ever seen that is when from Enviroments tool you click on the "Directory" icon. This is because Environment doesn't have a Linux cross platform way to open a directory...so it just uses  "nautilus" which was the default at some point in Ubuntu. So...whenever we can't find nautilus installed, it fails and shows that in the console.

I am discussing internally if we can find a uniform way of open a directory whatever tool it is in the distro.

I think  'xdg-open' is the most cross distro way.

Can you check?


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Richard Sargent

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Jun 25, 2019, 2:31:27 PM6/25/19
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On Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 11:07:27 AM UTC-7, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

The only time I have ever seen that is when from Enviroments tool you click on the "Directory" icon. This is because Environment doesn't have a Linux cross platform way to open a directory...so it just uses  "nautilus" which was the default at some point in Ubuntu. So...whenever we can't find nautilus installed, it fails and shows that in the console.

I am discussing internally if we can find a uniform way of open a directory whatever tool it is in the distro.

I think  'xdg-open' is the most cross distro way.


Yes, that does work. Oddly, it was exceptionally slow, taking perhaps 10 seconds to return to the command prompt and then another 5-10 seconds to start displaying a  window. Even more oddly, the icon view does not display any icons except for a file named gemstone.key. But, that's not your problem.

Can you check?


On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 3:02 PM Richard Sargent <richard...@gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
This was the result of selecting one of the images from the list (the only image, in my case) and clicking on the folder icon.
I am guessing Gnome is not installed.

Installed desktops list?
$ ls -l /usr/share/xsessions
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2573 Feb 17  2018 icewm-session.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5465 Sep 21  2016 xfce.desktop


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Bob Brodd

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Jun 25, 2019, 3:18:48 PM6/25/19
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Hi Richard,

As Mariano noted, nautilus is just the default we use because we have not found a dependable, cross platform way to to this .  That said, if you know what works on your particular OS, you can go to Setting and enter the name of a  folder explorer  that does work on your system.

Bob


On Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 2:07:27 PM UTC-4, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

The only time I have ever seen that is when from Enviroments tool you click on the "Directory" icon. This is because Environment doesn't have a Linux cross platform way to open a directory...so it just uses  "nautilus" which was the default at some point in Ubuntu. So...whenever we can't find nautilus installed, it fails and shows that in the console.

I am discussing internally if we can find a uniform way of open a directory whatever tool it is in the distro.

I think  'xdg-open' is the most cross distro way.

Can you check?


On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 3:02 PM Richard Sargent <richard...@gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
This was the result of selecting one of the images from the list (the only image, in my case) and clicking on the folder icon.
I am guessing Gnome is not installed.

Installed desktops list?
$ ls -l /usr/share/xsessions
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2573 Feb 17  2018 icewm-session.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5465 Sep 21  2016 xfce.desktop


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Richard Sargent

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Jun 25, 2019, 3:39:06 PM6/25/19
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On Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 12:18:48 PM UTC-7, Bob Brodd wrote:
Hi Richard,

As Mariano noted, nautilus is just the default we use because we have not found a dependable, cross platform way to to this .  That said, if you know what works on your particular OS, you can go to Setting and enter the name of a  folder explorer  that does work on your system.

Thanks for pointing that out, Bob. This is comparable to "an ini file entry".

However, I cannot overtype the existing entry and when I use the file selection dialogue, it doesn't change from nautilus to /usr/bin/xdg-open when I select that file.


How do I get that setting to change?

Bob Brodd

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Jun 25, 2019, 10:37:49 PM6/25/19
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Well, I can type in that field just fine on Linux Mint 19 and  Redhat 7.4 (VA Smalltalk 9.1_x86 ) , but I do see that the file selection button does not update the field .  I tried some of the other file selection buttons and they do work.  I'll open case on this.  So how do you get that setting changed ... good question!     What distro are you running on?

Thanks,
Bob

Richard Sargent

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Jun 26, 2019, 12:09:26 PM6/26/19
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On Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 7:37:49 PM UTC-7, Bob Brodd wrote:
Well, I can type in that field just fine on Linux Mint 19 and  Redhat 7.4 (VA Smalltalk 9.1_x86 ) , but I do see that the file selection button does not update the field .  I tried some of the other file selection buttons and they do work.  I'll open case on this.  So how do you get that setting changed ... good question!     What distro are you running on?

VA is running on the following, but I am using a X server on my Windows laptop for the display. I have no idea whether that might enter into it, but you never know.

        Ubuntu 18.04
           System Name    : meteor
           Kernel Release : Linux
           Kernel Version : 4.15.0-45-generic
           Processor      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
           CPUs           : 8
           CPU Speed (Mhz): 800.124
           CPU Cache size : 8192 KB
           Memory         : 62994 MB
           Shared Memory  : 47245 MB
           System Type    : Whitebox

 
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