Bug#820628: Menu item just opens terminal

[James McCoy]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 02:08:53PM -0500, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
> Under LXDE there is a menu icon (created by
> /usr/share/applications/vim.desktop) with the vim icon, but when I click it
> it just opens a new terminal (vim does not launch in that terminal).

If you happen to have the mutt, python2.7, or python3.5 packages
installed, do their respective icons have the same behavior?

> It seems not very useful to put in an icon to a graphical menu to launch
> non-graphical version of vim (I have only `vim` installed, not gvim or
> anything), but if others want to keep the icon then at least it should open
> vim and not only a terminal, I think.

The desktop file specifies “Terminal=true” and “Exec=vim %F”.  This
should cause LXDE to invoke “vim %F” in whatever terminal it decides to
launch.

At a guess, this would be an LXDE problem not a problem with the desktop
file I'm providing.  However, if you can confirm whether the
aforementioned other packages have the same behavior, that would help
determine where the issue is.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>