Terminator can't start launcher properly

[arne-fuchs]

Describe the bug I want to start Elite Dangerous with the MinEdLauncher through steam. Before terminator I started it with gnome-terminal: MANGOHUD=1 gnome-terminal -- ./MinEdLauncher %command% /autoquit Everything works fine. I've tried to open it with terminator with the following command: MANGOHUD=1 terminator -x ./MinEdLauncher %command% /autoquit and had following problems:

1. In the %command% part is a path leading to the elite dangerous. In this path there is a space between Elite and Dangerous. Suddenly the MinEdLauncher thought it would be two arguments instead of one. I could fix that in the program but it didn't happened in gnome-terminal.
2. Steam provides the wineprefix through a environmental variable called STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH. Somehow this variable gets lost in terminator. Defining it in the launch options didn't helped.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install Elite Dangerous through steam
2. Install MinEdLauncher
3. Change the launch options to open the MinEdLauncher
4. Start game through
5. If it failes, read logs at ~/.local/state/min-ed-launcher

Expected behavior parsing the arguments through without messing it up and providing environmental variables.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Ubuntu
• 22.04
• X11

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[mattrose]

you could try MANGOHUD=1 terminator -x 'STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=foo ./MinEdLauncher %command% /autoquit'

[arne-fuchs]

I am in vacation now. Will test it next week

[arne-fuchs]

It worked. But it failed to start steam now for unknown reason. I'll leave the issue open. It seems to mess things really up if you start it through steam.

[arne-fuchs]

Tried it in urxvt terminal. No problems.

[mattrose]

There's been some fixing of how we handle command line arguments. Can you check master to see if it's fixed?

[arne-fuchs]

Cloned the repo from master and did a setup build and install. I pasted the arguments mentioned in the issue above but resulted in instant crashing from the launcher. Launcher was not able to write any logs

[arne-fuchs]

I noticed by the way, that the setup.py is only to able to install the program, but not removing it, which is missing.

[mattrose]

Is there any errors from terminator? Possibly terminator is still doing something weird.

[mattrose]

I noticed by the way, that the setup.py is only to able to install the program, but not removing it, which is missing.

It does if you follow the Installation Instructions

[mattrose]

I'm not sure what more I can do to help you in this case.

[arne-fuchs]

For now I am using Rxvt so I am closing the issue. Thanks for helping though!