OCRfeeder cannot be started from GNOME-shell

[Alexander Kallenbach]

As descirbed above. I have to start a terminal and type ocrfeeder to start the application.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: ocrfeeder 0.8.1-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-12.13-generic 4.18.17
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Dec 9 18:27:59 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-30 (9 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ocrfeeder
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

Doesn't work in Unity as well.

[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

Bug seems to persist since some years. A workaround is described here:

https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/OCRFeeder/#OCR-Feeder-startet-nicht

Maybe this workaround could be the base for a fix?

[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

There is already an upstream-bug-report:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/ocrfeeder/issues/1

[Juhani Numminen (jsonic)]

Thanks for filing the bug. This was apparently reported already in 2016. Please continue discussion in bug #1533039.