Mint 17/Ubuntu 14.04 - can only launch one instance of gthumb
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gThumb |
Fix Released
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Medium
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gthumb (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
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Low
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Vlad Orlov |
Bug Description
[Impact]
The bug prevents users from launching a second instance of gthumb.
This feature is sometimes useful, for example, when opening a few images in a row from a file manager - it might open a new instance of gthumb.
In addition, second instance fails to run without any messages (unless you run it from terminal), which is confusing to the users.
The fix had been already applied upstream a few years ago, and it would be nice to backport it to Trusty.
The debdiff which is attached to this report contains the backported patch.
[Test Case]
Steps to reproduce:
- launch one instance of gthumb from terminal: gthumb &
- try launching a second instance: gthumb
Expected result:
- second instance would open normally
What really happens:
- second instance shows error message and quits immediately:
GDBus.Error:
[Regression Potential]
The fix had been applied upstream a few years ago, so it had been tested since then.
It was also tested by Utopic/Vivid/Wily users as it was included in gthumb 3.2.8 in these releases.
I consider the regression potential to be low here.
[Original Report]
If I right click on an "image file" in caja, select "open with", then "gthumb" :
In Linux Mint 13 Mate 32-bit I could open/launch multiple instances of gthumb from caja
In Linux Mint 17 Mate 32-bit I can only launch a single instance of gthumb - it seems to start, then nothing
In Linux Mint 17 Mate 32-bit I found I could open multiple instances of gthumb only from the gthumb file menu, select "New WIndow".
Worked in 13, not in 17 - could not find a preference (like I describe below for a similar problem with VLC Player) to solve this problem.
Note: found a similar problem with VLC Player, but it turned out a difference in default preference setting in VLC from 13 to 17, making that VLC preference change (preferences/
Changed in gthumb: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in gthumb (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
summary: |
- Mint 17 - can only launch one instance of gthumb + Mint 17/Ubuntu 14.04 - can only launch one instance of gthumb |
tags: | added: trusty |
Changed in gthumb (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in gthumb (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
description: | updated |
Also when you try to run the second instance of gthumb from the command line, you'll get this error:
GDBus.Error: org.freedesktop .DBus.Error. NotSupported: Application does not handle command line arguments
This is fixed in gthumb 3.2.8. Get this version from Ubuntu 14.10 repositories. Don't forget to retrieve both gthumb and gthumb-data packages (due to the dependencies).
Here's a bug report asking to update gthumb in Ubuntu 14.04 repositories to 3.2.8: /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 1323312
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