Correctly open files via command line

[palb91]

This issue is unique.

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Operating System

Linux (DEB package)

Version information

7.0.1.37

Expected Behavior

If I am in some directory, I expect onlyoffice-desktopeditors myfile.docx to open it.

Actual Behavior

It doesn't work with relative path, but onlyoffice-desktopeditors "$(realpath myfile.docx)" works as expected.

Reproduction Steps

In a terminal, run onlyoffice-desktopeditors myfile.docx, onlyoffice opens on the welcome screen. In a terminal, run onlyoffice-desktopeditors /path/to/myfile.docx, onlyoffice is now able to directly open the file.

Additional information

I tried it on ArchLinux, then I also tried the flatpak package and the behavior is the same, probably with the other platforms/packaging systems too.

I fixed it with a script that automatically changes any file arguments by its real path:

#!/bin/sh

for argv; do
    if [ -f "$argv" ]; then
        argv="$(realpath "$argv")"
    fi
    set -- "$@" "$argv"
    shift
done

exec /opt/onlyoffice/desktopeditors/DesktopEditors "$@"
# or
# exec flatpak run org.onlyofficedesktopeditors "$@"

[ShockwaveNN]

I tried it on ArchLinux

We do not provide an official package for ArchLinux, so I think this is on this package maintainers

About flatpak and another official ways to install DesktopEditors - we have an issue 50898 to implement such feature, but currently, there is not much traction, so I cannot provide any ETA

[palb91]

Yeah I saw that only deb and rpm are packaged (OnlyOffice on ArchLinux is based on the deb package). That's why I tried with flatpak, and the behavior being the same, I took the liberty to open the issue.

My script is just a workaround, a correct fix would probably involve more work.

[KevinGIRAULT]

In my ZorinOS 16.2 (based on Ubuntu), I can't open file with current path (from root, no problem). Is a .deb installation version. This opens ZorinOS on its homepage.

Version 7.0.0.127 of OO.

[Freed-Wu]

Why not modify https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/desktop-apps:

diff --git a/win-linux/package/linux/common/usr/bin/desktopeditors.m4 b/win-linux/package/linux/common/usr/bin/desktopeditors.m4
index aa2bea2..373cea5 100644
--- a/win-linux/package/linux/common/usr/bin/desktopeditors.m4
+++ b/win-linux/package/linux/common/usr/bin/desktopeditors.m4
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+for argv; do
+    if [ -f "$argv" ]; then
+        argv="$(realpath "$argv")"
+    fi
+    set -- "$@" "$argv"
+    shift
+done
+
 ifelse(M4_COMPANY_NAME, ONLYOFFICE,
 set_names() {
   case $LANG in

[XDmitryK]

This was added in version 8.1.0 https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/desktop-apps/commit/7f81e2ec45fe739c53bb66a974fc890c02dd5cee

[Rita-Bubnova]

DocumentServer v8.1.0 is released so I close this issue. Feel free to comment or reopen it if you got further questions.