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Executables often fail due to not being launched in the CWD.
What Happened?
When trying to launch a steam game (just an example) from the executable files seems to do nothing but when ran with the terminal you can see this error:
/home/allie/.local/share/godot/app_userdata/Luck be a Landlord/install folder/Luck be a Landlord.x86_64: error while loading shared libraries: libsteam_api.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This is because it's being launched with its full path instead of with the CWD (I think). Opening in Gnome Files works just fine so I imagine they run from the CWD.
Steps to Reproduce
I obviously can't share the example I'm using here so have this screen recording
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13716824/153735767-885d4922-df5f-47d5-84d6-7cd6afd6d98b.mp4
Expected Behavior
Ideally run executables from the current folder, not their full path or at least show a message when an executable returns non-0 exit code. The former would actually solve the issue and I imagine be easier since there'd be no new UI.
OS Version
6.x (Odin)
Software Version
Latest release (I have run all updates)
Log Output
No response
Hardware Info
No response
Looks like both Gnome Files and elementary Files use GAppInfo.launch () but one difference is that Gnome Files creates an AppLaunchContext to pass to that function whereas elementary Files passes null.
What is the simplest test case for this issue (I do not have Steam games)?
What is the filetype and permissions of the executable used in the screencast?
Note that elementary Files rather discourages launching executables compared with other file managers for security reasons. E.g. desktop files are deliberately not treated as executables but as text files. Also it looks like scripts that output to a terminal do not have a terminal launched automatically.
What is the filetype and permissions of the executable used in the screencast?
application/x-executable, 775
What is the simplest test case for this issue (I do not have Steam games)?
I'll see if I can find/make something :smile:
Have you tried adding your Steam executable folder to your $PATH environment variable?