Cannot open new gnome-terminal instance from launcher with jumpapp-ified .desktop file

[dsikkema]

Hi,
I've been able to get 99% of where I want to be by using this project. On my gnome setup, I have been able to (a) make sure that when I open the Terminal application from launcher, an existing window is raised as long as the window exists already, and (b) make sure that Ctrl+Alt+T (using custom shortcut) raises the existing window or creates a new one. It's a great improvement!

What I can't figure out is this - when no Terminal window is open at all, the launcher will not open a terminal window. Simply nothing happens when trying to use the launcher to open gnome-terminal. I used the jumpappify-desktop command to replace "Exec=gnome-terminal" with "Exec=jumpapp gnome-terminal". It's strange because jumpapp gnome-terminal works to open a new terminal window when using the ctrl+alt+t shortcut, and also when running a command with alt+f2.

I'm wondering if it has something to do with launching a program from inside a program from inside a Desktop file... wondering if there is some kind of process ownership where the parent process dies and therefore gnome-terminal is a child process that also gets killed. Or else it could be because of something weird about the gnome-terminal application itself? The problem does not happen when I put jumpapp in front of other applications.

Have you seen something like this before, or have any suggestions?

[mkropat]

Interesting. I haven't seen that before, but I also haven't tested jumpappify-desktop on a variety of platforms, including recent versions of gnome.

I'm wondering if it has something to do with launching a program from inside a program from inside a Desktop file... wondering if there is some kind of process ownership where the parent process dies and therefore gnome-terminal is a child process that also gets killed.

Something like that sounds plausible. jumpapp already goes through some hoops to detach from the launching process, but it may not be foolproof.

I don't have a gnome desktop readily available to test on currently. If I spin one up maybe I can try it out and see what's going wrong.

[shaun-sweet]

mine launches fine but on ubuntu-desktop it won't focus it

[boudewijn-zicht]

A possible fix is to add WaylandEnable=false to /etc/gdm/custom.conf. See: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/623482/fedora-33-gnome-terminal-doesnt-show-up-in-wmctrl