firefox-esr and brave-browser work, but firefox, nautilus, thunar, gnome-terminal, xterm do not

[Franz]

Hello,

the following command is intended to run an application in a new DVM:

qvm-run --dispvm=debian-11-dvm --service qubes.StartApp+<app name>

If in place of <app name> I put firefox-esr or brave-browser it works, the new DVM is opened and the application works as expected.

But if in place of <app name> I put firefox, nautilus, thunar, gnome-terminal, xterm the DVM starts, but immediately after closes with error:

command failed with code:1

Any idea to solve it or is it just a bug?

firefox-esr and brave-browser work, but firefox, nautilus, thunar, gnome-terminal, xterm do not

[Andrew David Wong]

You might be missing .desktop files or something for the ones that aren't working. That seems to be a common problem.

I prefer the simplicity and reliability of this type of command:

qvm-run --dispvm=debian-11-dvm <app_command>

E.g.:

qvm-run --dispvm=debian-11-dvm nautilus

[unman]

In Debian, the desktop file is firefox-esr.desktop. The application is
available using either firefox or firefox-esr.
When you use the --service form of qvm-run it references the desktop
files, as Andrew said.(The Debian package is also called firefox-esr,
and `firefox` is a shell script that calls `firefox-esr`)

In Debian, the desktop file for xterm is `debian-xterm.desktop`, so that's how you
must address it if you use the --service form.
Nautilus is org.gnome.Nautilus.Desktop etc.

Some of the examples you gave have a different root cause, because of
the way that those applications work. For example, gnome-terminal will
call the gnome-terminal server and spawn an instance of the terminal.
Because of the way that disposables work, when that first call completes,
the disposable shuts down, so you never see a terminal window.
Qubes provides qubes-run-gnome-terminal to help with this.

[Franz]

> I prefer the simplicity and reliability of this type of command:
>
> qvm-run --dispvm=debian-11-dvm <app_command>
>
> E.g.:
>
> qvm-run --dispvm=debian-11-dvm nautilus
>

yes  thanks this works

 

In Debian, the desktop file is firefox-esr.desktop. The application is
available using either firefox or firefox-esr.
When you use the --service form of qvm-run it references the desktop
files, as Andrew said.(The Debian package is also called firefox-esr,
and `firefox` is a shell script that calls `firefox-esr`)

In Debian, the desktop file for xterm is `debian-xterm.desktop`, so that's how you
must address it if you use the --service form.
Nautilus is org.gnome.Nautilus.Desktop etc.

Interesting,

Many thanks, my friends