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benfry
launcher setting ignored in preferences.txt
In GitLab by @hamoid on Aug 12, 2021, 09:08
Description
Executing "Open Sketch Folder" on Arch Linux with i3wm and fish does not open the folder. I used to work around this by specifying a custom launcher setting. This worked in Processing 3.4, but not in later versions.
This affects very few people I guess (maybe 1?) but it would be nice if the launcher setting was enforced if present, as an override. The related lines are found here:
https://github.com/processing/processing4/blob/master/app/src/processing/app/platform/LinuxPlatform.java#L118
Expected Behavior
I can use Open Sketch Folder
Current Behavior
I can't use Open Sketch Folder. It opens a terminal window with text being printed forever in a loop.
Steps to Reproduce
Press Ctrl+K
Your Environment
- Processing version: 4.0b
- Operating System and OS version: up to date Arch Linux
- Other information: using i3 window manager
Possible Causes / Solutions
I think a solution might be to tweak the order of the if statements: if a launcher is specified, use it, otherwise, try use the default approaches. But I don't know how messy touching any of that might be.
Old post about this issue: https://discourse.processing.org/t/launcher-seems-to-be-ignored-in-the-preferences/10840/7
Yeah, I changed it to use Java's Desktop class instead so that we could avoid more custom code like this. (Meaning that your issue is really with Java, and how it implements Desktop…)
Maybe I could change it to see if you have a launcher setting specified, but that also means changing up some of that other logic, rewriting openFolderAvailable() so that it doesn't set launcher. Unfortunately, that also likely means that some people will be disappointed if they accidentally had a launcher value set and wanted the Desktop behavior. Will think about it.
I was concerned that it might not be so easy, that's why I didn't mention it earlier. If no one else is affected it's very ok to close this.
