Gnome-Do / opening terminal

[kuly]

Hello guys.

I've installed recently Linux Mint 14 (MATE) and as usual, I've installed too gnome-do.
What happens is that each time I try to open terminal from gnome-do, I do not have the option to do it. Instead I have 3 options, Run in terminal, open terminal here and Gnome terminal profiles, but none of them open's anything.

What can I do to solve this and get the option to open terminal on the gnome-do again?

Thank you.

[mbaroukh]

Hi.

Samething here.
I played with plugins without any luck.
Nobody have the same issue ?

It was working correctly on my previous mint version (11).

[sunmorgus]

I (FINALLY) figured out the solution to this one...it seems as though the launcher for Terminal in ~/.local/share/applications is marked as "untrusted", which apparently means it doesn't have execute permissions (browse to that folder and double click the mate-terminal.desktop file and choose "Mark as Trusted", or, from the command line, chmod +x mate-terminal.desktop). After doing that it started appearing in gnome-do and launching normally. Hope this helps

[zeco]

That didn't work for me yet.

~/.local/share/applications only holds .desktop-files of applications whose entries you manually created (or edited) in the Gnome menu.

There is a mate-terminal.desktop in /usr/share/applications but it's got the same file permissions (-rw-r--r-- root:root) as other applications' .desktop-files that are proven to work with Gnome-Do. I temporarily gave it a+x rights but that did nothing.

Btw none of the applications in /usr/share/applications which are prefixed with "mate-" seem to get indexed by gnome-do (at least none which I tried, neither by their English name nor my German localization). I'm pretty sure they were indexed in Mint 13's version though.

[sunmorgus]

Outside of doing it via chmod, did you try double clicking on them from caja? That's how I actually got mine working, and it was through looking at the permissions afterwards that I noticed that that one had the a+x and the others in that folder did not.

Also, after making the change, I had to scroll down in the gnome-do results a little ways to find Terminal, and launch it a couple of times, before it became the default in gnome-do when starting to type "terminal".

I don't believe I manually created the .desktop files in that folder. I may have attempted to modify the launcher in the gnome menu for terminal whilst troubleshooting this problem, but there were others in there as well that I KNOW I didn't touch, and one of the others gave me that "Untrusted" message when I double clicked on it as well...

[kuly]

well... none of these solutions worked for me.

What I found out, is that if I write mate-terminal, I am able to open the terminal via Gnome-Do.
Is there anyway that I can create some kind of a link to get the "mate-terminal" opened by typing the command "terminal" on Gnome-Do?

Thanks for all your suggestions.

[sunmorgus]

Well, the only other thing I can think of that may have gotten it working for me is I added a launcher to it to my panel (I drug it from the applications launcher to the panel)...perhaps trying that would help?

[ObsidianX]

Hey folks,

What worked for me was copying /usr/share/applications/mate-terminal.desktop into ~/.local/share/applications/

After that Terminal showed up as an alternative when typing "terminal" and pressing down. After selecting it a couple times it became the default.

[kuly]

ObsidianX thanks a lot!!

That worked for me!



It is now solved.