[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Starting application from task navigator menuwon't work

[From: Devesh Kothari]

maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I created a small helloworld application and created the .deb package
>pretty much by copying stuff from Jarkko Oikarinen's Mammasnake package
>(by the way, a million thanks to Jarkko for not using autotools - for a
>newbie like me the shell script is way, way, WAY easier to understand
>than autotools scripts)
>
>Anyway - I manage to install the package to a real N770 device and it
>shows under "Extras" in the menu - but selecting it doesn't do anything.
>In fact, the only thing that happens that I no longer can start anything
>(like file manager or anything under Games etc) from the task bar menu
>anymore. Otherwise the device works fine - I can e.g. adjust volume
>settings from the top right corner.
>
>Any ideas for what could be wrong? I checked with "ps -aux | grep user"
>in XTerm on the device and apparently my application does not even
>start, so the problem is likely to be somehow with the installation
>package, not the actual application.
>
>As I said, I pretty much copied the package.sh script, the .service
>file, the .desktop file, and the control file from the Mammasnake
>package by replacing all 'mammasnake' references with the name of my own
>application. So the links etc should work fine.
>
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be careful with the .desktop file as it contains the Exec="xxx"
where xxx is the executable to launch.

check that it contains the right executable i.e your executable

>Oh, and I did the whole compile under ARM target and checked (with
>'file') that the executable really is an ARM executable.
>
>			-Sami-
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