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Frostwire entry on menu not working
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:44 am
by emgy
I have installed Frostwire on Bianca, but the menu entry does not work.
If I type "frostwire" in a terminal, Frostwire launches with no problem.
The command behind the menu entry is also "frostwire", so I cannot understand why it does not launch.
I obtained Frostwire from
http://www.frostwire.com
In a terminal I typed sudo dpkg -i FrostWire-4.13.1.5-1.i586.deb
It appeared to install succesfully, and it does work perfectly when it is launched from a terminal.
The problem seems to be just with the menu entry.
I would be grateful for any suggestions.
emgy
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:39 am
by clem
Please paste:
- the content of the frostwire desktop file in /usr/share/applications
- the line referring to frostwire as it appears in the Terminal when you run /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu_frontend.py run-in-window
Clem
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:23 am
by emgy
Hi Clem,
The content of the desktop file is below:.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=FrostWire
GenericName=P2P Gnutella/Bittorrent client
Comment=Search and share all kinds of files on the Gnutella network
Exec=frostwire
Icon=/usr/share/icons/application-default-icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network;P2P;Java
GenericName[en_US]=P2P Gnutella/Bittorrent client
Comment[en_US]=Search and share all kinds of files on the Gnutella network
(I changed the icon line)
I ran the command you gave me and the output is below.
(I deleted the other "EXEC=" lines)
Thanks
emgy
rory@dominator:~$ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu_frontend.py run-in-window
Loading plugin 'places' : sucessful
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu_frontend.py:148: GtkWarning: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkImage to a GtkEventBox, but as a GtkBin subclass a GtkEventBox can only contain one widget at a time; it already contains a widget of type GtkImage
ImageBox.add( Image1 )
Loading plugin 'system_management' : sucessful
Loading plugin 'applications' : sucessful
EXEC=frostwire'
Reloading Plugins...
Loading plugin 'places' : sucessful
Loading plugin 'system_management' : sucessful
Loading plugin 'applications' : sucessful
EXEC=frostwire'
mintMenu reloaded
After this, a window appeared with the Mint Menu icon inside it.
I clicked the icon and got a floating menu on the screen.
I selected the frostwire entry on this menu.
Frostwire still did not open, but the terminal window displayed the following lines after all the "EXEC=" lines:
same number of apps, doing nothing
CLICKED
['frostwire']
About to execute
['frostwire']
<gtk.Button object (GtkButton) at 0xb6701c34>
rory@compaq:~$
(mintMenu_frontend.py:6919): Bonobo-WARNING **: Never got frame, control died - abnormal exit condition
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:03 am
by clem
Things look fine... I'll try to install frostwire and troubleshoot/fix that.
Clem
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:24 am
by historyb
Followed the instruction and it keep crashing.
Here's the message it gives:
Code: Select all
******************************************************************
Something went wrong with FrostWire.
Maybe you're using the wrong version of Java?
(FrostWire is tested against and works best with with Sun's JRE, Java 1.4+)
The version of Java in your PATH is:
java version "1.5.0_09"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_09-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_09-b03, mixed mode, sharing)
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:59 pm
by historyb
Yes I did, that's how I got the output.
I'm thinking since I have a lot of space I might run a vmware and do it through there
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:12 pm
by historyb
Well after I posted I start it and all is well. The only thing I did different was shutdown my computer last night and turn it on this morning. Oh, well it works now
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:31 pm
by historyb
Well it's back to it's old tricks, so much for working.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:28 am
by gabhla
I have the Frostwire entry on the menu, and it does work - just no Frostwire icon. Strange.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 1:59 pm
by historyb
I have a fix. Yea! it is on this
page. Basically uninstall the new frostwire beta through synaptic and then install this one. It works after that
Re: Frostwire entry on menu not working
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:25 am
by merlwiz79
emgy wrote:I have installed Frostwire on Bianca, but the menu entry does not work.
The fix with screenshots are here. This is for Linux Mint 2.2 default install.
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... ire&t=2112