Bug 405335 – x11-misc/x11vnc-0.9.13 - x11vnc.desktop is unable to launch server due to variable expansion gone bad

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Leho Kraav (:macmaN @lkraav) 2012-02-22 20:32:16 UTC]

Ref: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1538764

 4 Exec=x11vnc -gui tray=setpass -rfbport PROMPT -bg -o %%HOME/.x11vnc.log.%%VNCDISPLAY

This line does not work in reality.

==> /home/leho/.tail/awesome-leho <==
22/02/2012 22:26:56 Port prompt selected: 5900
starting gui, trying display: :0
22/02/2012 22:26:56 icon_mode_file=/tmp/x11vnc.tray.7fhZ6W
22/02/2012 22:26:56 Expanded logfile to '%%HOME/.x11vnc.log.%s9:5900'
22/02/2012 22:26:56 Expanded logfile to '%/home/leho/.x11vnc.log.%s9:5900'
error opening logfile: %/home/leho/.x11vnc.log.%s9:5900
open: No such file or directory

22/02/2012 22:27:00 gui: trying to contact a x11vnc server at X display :0 ...
22/02/2012 22:27:00 gui: pinging :0 try=1 ...
>>> sending remote command: "qry=ping" via X11VNC_REMOTE X property.
error: could not connect to an x11vnc server at :0  (rc=1)
22/02/2012 22:27:03 gui: parent process 13936 has gone away: bailing out.
22/02/2012 22:27:03 gui: could not connect to: ':0', try again manually.

Converting double-% into single-% works.

==> /home/leho/.tail/awesome-leho <==
22/02/2012 22:27:50 Port prompt selected: 5900
starting gui, trying display: :0
22/02/2012 22:27:50 icon_mode_file=/tmp/x11vnc.tray.RpWNcb
22/02/2012 22:27:50 Expanded logfile to '%HOME/.x11vnc.log.s9:5900'
22/02/2012 22:27:50 Expanded logfile to '/home/leho/.x11vnc.log.s9:5900'
PORT=5900

22/02/2012 22:27:50 gui: got SIGUSR1
22/02/2012 22:27:50 gui: ping succeeded.

Who is to blame here?

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Sven Wegener 2012-11-25 15:14:46 UTC]

Plain % needs to be escaped as %% in .desktop files, because .desktop files provide their own % formatting. Probably your desktop environment is to blame.