On Tuesday, 20 September 2016 16:12:42 CEST Chris Rouch wrote:
On 16 September 2016 at 15:01, Timothy Murphy
<gayleard(a)eircom.net> wrote:
> After I updated my Fedora-24/KDE laptop this morning
> I found that clicking on icons in the panel
> which represent applications I have created
> no longer has any effect.
>
> More precisely, I created an application called "helen login"
> (many months, if not years, ago)
> by right-clicking on Application Launcher=>Edit Applications,
> and which simply runs the script "ssh -Y helen-vpn"
> with the "Run in Terminal" option clicked.
> Then I added the item (with icon) to the panel.
>
> This has been working as I said for many months,
> but has ceased to work after todays update
> (even after re-booting).
> The script itself works as it always did,
> when directly entered.
>
> I know there are easy alternative ways to reach the same goal,
> but I would be interested to know why this change has occurred.
>
> Incidentally, I also tried clicking on "Add as launcher".
> This created a small icon in the panel,
> but clicking on that had no effect either.
> I saw this message in the journal:
> "klauncher[1438]: -miniicon isn't supported anymore (service
"helen" )"
> which is probably relevant.
>
>
> I think the latest konsole is broken. The help says
" -e <cmd> Command to execute. This option will catch all
following arguments, so use it as the last option."
But in practise this is no longer true:
% konsole -e ssh -Y localhost
Unknown option 'Y'.
Tried quoting?
$ konsole -e 'ssh -Y localhost'
--
Luigi