From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: resending... desktop files not working for recent ubuntu?
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 15:21:42 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pos2ree1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ+TeocpTAngmVi3+WSAx90yJFpmvfWLzSVvLWap4s8AdOYxQw@mail.gmail.com>
Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
> Apologies for second copy 1st doesnt seem to have appeared
>
> --------------------------------------------- I have this
> emacs.desktop file put in ~/.local/share/applications
>
> --------------- [Desktop Entry] Name=EmacsClient
> GenericName=Text Editor Comment=Edit text
> MimeType=text/english;text/plain;text/x-makefile;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-java;text/x-moc;text/x-pascal;text/x-tcl;text/x-tex;application/x-shellscript;text/x-c;text/x-c++;
>
> Exec=emacsclient -n -a emacs %F Icon=python Type=Application
> Terminal=false Categories=Development;TextEditor;
> StartupWMClass=Emacs
>
> --------------- Currently this laptop is on ubuntu 16.4 (xenial)
> -- vanilla unity desktop It used to work ok in earlier ubuntus
> Now on 16.4 it shows 2 emacs icons when editing a file via
> emacsclient Clicking the second icon shows no effect After about
> 10 seconds it disappears
>
> Dont know when it stopped working because frankly I am not much
> of a nautilus -> click -> emacsclient type of user
>
> Current generation -- my students -- however default to this
> kind of usage And so they default to one or both of - gedit by
> default - dozens of emacses open for each file they clicked
Shouldn't you specify '' (i.e. the empty string) as the -a
argument in the Exec option? From the man page for emacsclient(1):
-a, --alternate-editor=EDITOR
if the Emacs server is not running, run the specified editor
instead. This can also be specified via the
`ALTERNATE_EDITOR' environment variable. If the value of
EDITOR is the empty string, run `emacs --daemon' to start
Emacs in daemon mode, and try to connect to it.
Alexis.
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2016-05-30 15:04 resending... desktop files not working for recent ubuntu? Rustom Mody
2016-05-31 5:21 ` Alexis [this message]
2016-06-01 15:49 ` Rustom Mody
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2016-06-14 1:54 ` Rusi
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