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xfce4-terminal package

Terminal help is inaccessible

Bug #964483 reported by Pasi Lallinaho on 2012-03-25

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xfce4-terminal (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Navgating to 'Help -> Help Contents' or pressing F1 while in Xfce4 Terminal, the user gets an error:

Failed to execute default Web Browser
Text ended before matching quote was found for #.(The text was '/usr/bin/firefox file:///usr/share/doc/xfce4-terminal/C/index.html#').

This should be both changed to link to the exo-launcher as well as actually open the help.

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lp:ubuntu/precise/xfce4-terminal

Pasi Lallinaho (knome) on 2012-03-25

summary:

- Xfce4 Terminal help is inaccessible
+ Terminal help is inaccessible

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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote on 2012-03-25:

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/964483

tags:

added: iso-testing

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Pasi Lallinaho (knome) wrote on 2012-03-28:

Within the live session in the 20120328 image, Terminal help is accessible. After installed, it is not.

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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote on 2012-04-04:

It already uses exo.

affects:

xfce4-terminal (Ubuntu) → exo (Ubuntu)

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Janne Jokitalo (astraljava) wrote on 2012-04-05:

When debugging the issue, I found out that xfce4-terminal writes to debug log a line:"Error: No running window found", but only when the preferred browser is firefox. Chrome and Opera work just fine.

Will continue debugging over the weekend.

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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote on 2012-04-05:

xubuntu_fix-invalid-anchor.patch Edit (779 bytes, text/plain)

I'm not sure where the bug is actually... in exo, the # is rejected by g_shell_parse_argv() (which is the one responsible for the error message), but this seems normal. So instead I'll patch xfce4-terminal not to add # when there's no anchor/id after that.

The "error: no running window found" message comes from firefox and is harmless.

affects:	exo (Ubuntu) → xfce4-terminal (Ubuntu)
Changed in xfce4-terminal (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Confirmed

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) on 2012-04-05

tags:

added: patch

Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) on 2012-04-05

Changed in xfce4-terminal (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-04-05:

This bug was fixed in the package xfce4-terminal - 0.4.8-1ubuntu1

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xfce4-terminal (0.4.8-1ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/patches:
    - xubuntu_fix-invalid-anchor.patch: don't add '#' to the filename when
      there's no anchor/id to move to. lp: #964483
-- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:07:06 +0200