Spotify will not launch from the KDE menu and .xession-errors contains the line "Could not find 'spotify-dbus.py' executable." It runs without problem when started from a terminal commanmd line. einstein ~ # emerge --info =media-sound/spotify-0.8.4.103 Portage 2.2.0_alpha142 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.7.2, glibc-2.16.0, 3.6.6-hardened x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.6.6-hardened-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2320_CPU_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3, 4.7.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 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distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch xattr" FFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.linuxant.fr/distfiles.gentoo.org/ http://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.linuxant.fr/distfiles.gentoo.org/ ftp://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en_GB en fr" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/raw /var/lib/layman/raiagent /var/lib/layman/x11" 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that was probably built from the overlay (not that it would have fixed it to be built from tree). I've commited r1 to tree and it should fix it (I don't run gnome or kde here so hard to tell if it will work fully for you)
Unfortuntely the results are rather mixed. 1) As-is spotify-python.py does not run on my system as it fails under python-3.2 (which is the default python on my system) with a syntax error. Manualy editting the shebang to '#!/usr/bin/python2.7' it runs. 2) When running Gnome-3, spotify starts OK from the application menu. 3) When running kde-4.9.3, I get a python traceback in ~/.xsession-errors Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/spotify-dbus.py", line 651, in <module> s = Spotify() File "/usr/bin/spotify-dbus.py", line 542, in __init__ self.install_mediakey_handler() File "/usr/bin/spotify-dbus.py", line 496, in install_mediakey_handler 'Spotify', 0, dbus_interface='org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys') File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 70, in __call__ return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__ **keywords) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking message, timeout) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface `org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys' on object at path /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/MediaKeys (I think the last line is related to attempting to start spotify, but I cannot be certain) 4. I know very little about desktop files, but I believe that both Gnome and KDE use the same desktop file.
does manually editing spotify-dbus.py to run 2.7 make it work fully? or is the traceback from trying to run 3.2? I don't know anything about desktop files
(In reply to comment #3) > does manually editing spotify-dbus.py to run 2.7 make it work fully? or is > the traceback from trying to run 3.2? > > > I don't know anything about desktop files That is the traceback from running it under python 2.7 on KDE. The same spotify-dbus.py (with 2.7) runs fine under Gnome-3. So it seems as though there is a difference between launching from the (same) desktop file under Gnome and KDE. Under python 3.2, it gives a Python syntax error. In Python 3, the 'print' statement must be called as a function.
ok, well, then until upstream has it working with kde I think I remove that use flag :( might sed the script too for the 2.7 (and dep on 2.7 as well)
(In reply to comment #5) > ok, well, then until upstream has it working with kde I think I remove that > use flag :( > > might sed the script too for the 2.7 (and dep on 2.7 as well) Hi Matthew, KDE support for Spotify isn't an upstream bug. spotify-0.8.4.103 from the main tree (I haven't tried the overlay) works fine with KDE (tested with Python 2.7). It is version spotify-0.8.4.103-r1 that breaks with KDE (due to : sed -i 's/spotify \%U/spotify-dbus.py \%U/g' usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop). If you want a working Spotify with KDE then you need to revert this change. Best regards, Michiel.
ok, there were two main changes that could effect kde that I see. + kde? ( gnome-extra/gnome-integration-spotify )" that was installed in r1 and the sed was also done in r1. can you confirm that having gnome-extra/gnome-integration-spotify along with NOT using the sed works?
(In reply to comment #7) > ok, there were two main changes that could effect kde that I see. > > + kde? ( gnome-extra/gnome-integration-spotify )" > > that was installed in r1 > > and the sed was also done in r1. > > can you confirm that having gnome-extra/gnome-integration-spotify along with > NOT using the sed works? If I manually edit the desktop file to revert the one sed change (replacing spotify-dbus.py with spotify) then spotify starts from the KDE desktop.
(In reply to comment #7) It is the sed that breaks Spotify on KDE. gnome-integration-spotify isn't used by Spotify on KDE (confirmed with strace) so it doesn't matter if it is installed or not. Of course it doesn't make much sense to add gnome-integration-spotify as a dependency via the kde useflag. If you revert both KDE related changes then everything works as expected.
fixed (reverted) in media-sound/spotify-0.8.4.103-r2
Seeing as I represent upstream for gnome-integration-spotify, I'd like to know how I can help so we can install gnome-integration-spotify with +gnome and run fine under GNOME as well as under KDE. I'm not sure if any of the gnome-integration-spotify functionality actually helps KDE in any way (it might since AFAIK dbus is used universally), but it should at the very least not break spotify under KDE if users prefer to use both GNOME and KDE and expect spotify to be working fine on both. Is it possible to programatically determine whether a shell/python script is running under GNOME or KDE? If so I can add a launcher wrapper to call spotify vs. spotify_dbus.py as appropriate.
(In reply to comment #11) > Seeing as I represent upstream for gnome-integration-spotify, I'd like to > know how I can help so we can install gnome-integration-spotify with +gnome > and run fine under GNOME as well as under KDE. I'm not sure if any of the > gnome-integration-spotify functionality actually helps KDE in any way (it > might since AFAIK dbus is used universally), but it should at the very least > not break spotify under KDE if users prefer to use both GNOME and KDE and > expect spotify to be working fine on both. > > Is it possible to programatically determine whether a shell/python script is > running under GNOME or KDE? If so I can add a launcher wrapper to call > spotify vs. spotify_dbus.py as appropriate. you might be able to see if it's parent process is a gnome or KDE process, but honestly I haven't used a DE in years, so don't know.
