keyboard shortcuts for email and browser pass spurious arguments to the applications

[Stefano Angeleri]

Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon

It seems since natty (maverick doesn't suffer this issue) when using the keyboard shortcuts functionality of gnome to open them the applications are called but with spurious arguments. In my case for firefox it's sent a big number with no meaning (always the same too), for evolution it's sent an %U. This thing makes both misbehave: firefox opens a weird page with this number (http://number/) and evolution never opens the windows if it's not already open. As a temporary solution I've worked around this by putting a wrapper script which removes these "arguments":

#/bin/sh
#for args
#do
#echo $args >> /tmp/out
#done

if [ "$1" = "%U" ]; then
/usr/bin/evolution2
else
/usr/bin/evolution2 $@
fi

and

#!/bin/sh

set -e

if [ "$1" = "3788462439" ]; then
firefox
exit
fi

# Firefox launcher containing a Profile migration helper for

on top of the firefox init script already there.
Obviously this isn't a correct solution. So why the keyboard shortcut launcher is sending arguments at all? it should allow to configure them or not set them at all. This is a clean natty install with just firefox config folder copied from the previous install and evolution restored by using the backup functionality but i don't think this matters as the problem is these arguments which have no meaning to be there and shouldn't be there at all (so not firefox 373.... or evolution %U but just firefox and evolution!)

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty

  Installato: 2.32.1-0ubuntu13.1
  Candidato: 2.32.1-0ubuntu13.1
  Tabella versione:
 *** 2.32.1-0ubuntu13.1 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

this is updated anyway with all last versions from ubuntu natty official repo (none from proposed)

[R1dO (r-den-ouden)]

Did you change any of the "preferred applications" via the menu (or via the cli-command "gnome-default-applications-properties").

If so this might be a duplicate of: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/800927

[Stefano Angeleri (weltall)]

no. no changes to proffered applications. not even the keys where changed it all comes out from a clean install of ubuntu natty from scratch (while I keep the home folder I always move all files and folders starting with . and never restore gnome ones)