Frostwire entry on menu not working

[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

[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

[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

[clem]

Things look fine... I'll try to install frostwire and troubleshoot/fix that.

Clem

[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)

[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

[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

[historyb]

Well it's back to it's old tricks, so much for working.

[gabhla]

I have the Frostwire entry on the menu, and it does work - just no Frostwire icon. Strange.

[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

[merlwiz79]

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