Cerbere is unable to execute applications with arguments/options

Bug #905434 reported by Lee Hyde
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Cerbere
Fix Released
Wishlist
Victor Martinez

Bug Description

It would appear that cerbere is unable to execute applications with arguments. By way of a particularly pertinent example, I use synapse and I would very much like cerbere to handle it's execution. Typically synapse is started with the -s or --startup option, which start synapse hidden. However appending 'synapse -s' to cerbere's dconf string yields the following error message in my~/.xsession-error logs.

** (cerbere:10465): CRITICAL **: file /build/buildd/cerbere-0.1/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/src/cerbere.c: line 203: uncaught error: Failed to execute child process "synapse -s" (No such file or directory) (g-exec-error-quark, 8)

Conversely, appending simply 'synapse' to cerbere's dconf string yields a perfect execution of synapse, only in its unhidden/summoned state, which is of course not ideal at start-up.

Is cerbere unable to handle arguments/options or is there perhaps a special syntax for this situation?

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Lee Hyde (anubeon)
description: updated
Changed in cerbere:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames) wrote :

Not sure how critical this is to normal Pantheon operation, but it'd be a nice feature nonetheless.

Changed in cerbere:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in cerbere:
assignee: nobody → Victor Eduardo (victored)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
tags: added: command-line
tags: added: command-line-args
removed: command-line
Changed in cerbere:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in cerbere:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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