Firefox launcher problem

**zika** · December 7th, 2012

Originally Posted by serdotlinecho

Unity shortcut hint overlay. Hold superkey and tap the number on keyboard

I do not have Super key... Old IBM keyboard, pre-pre-Win... I'll have to assign one... Thank You...
BTW how am I now going to add a new keyboard layout? It doesn't happen in SystemSettings, I should obviously have privilege... New teaser... I'll wait until I have enough time for that...

Update₁: OK, I've changed Super to another combination and I can now test hints in Launcher... But the question about adding keyboard layout still stands (moved to a new thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2092243)...
(I must admit that most of the time I spend in dwm, spectrwm, fvwm so I'm used to change keyboard layout through setxkbmap, but of course this GUI way worked for me earlier, I do not know if it worked in RR...)
Thank You for heads up about new feature. I even like it... Excuse me for off-topic here...

**cecilpierce** · December 7th, 2012

I get that square box up in the corner to for about 5 seconds !

**sgage** · December 9th, 2012

I reinstalled Raring yesterday, and the FF launcher problem was still there. So I went to /usr/share/applications and had a look at firefox.desktop - figured I'd trim it down until it work.

Phase 1 was to simply remove all the other languages from Name, Comment, Generic Name, etc., besides the first default entry, to make it easier to work with. Tried it out, and voila! It works as expected!

It seems like something among all those language choices is causing a problem...

[Edited: Ack! Spoke too soon! It only worked once, and then exhibited the same behavior. I cut it down to rock-bottom minimum, and it seems to work repeatedly now. I'll add in the other lines until it fails. I'd really like to know what's going on.]

[Edit 2: Got it in one - it was the line 'StartupNotify=true']