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caclark opened this issue Jan 1, 2025 · 2 comments
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AppImage of a GtkApplication --help output #304

caclark opened this issue Jan 1, 2025 · 2 comments

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caclark commented Jan 1, 2025

I am using an AppImage from the Geeqie project, created using linuxdeploy and the gtk plugin:
https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie

The project is a GtkApplication, which generates some of the --help out itself. When I call the AppImage with the option --help, the relevant part of the output shows:

Usage:
AppRun.wrapped [OPTION…] [path...]

I assume this is coming from argv[0].

Is it possible for the scripts to be changed to show the ultimate executable?
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What does it say when you call the AppImage?

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caclark commented Jan 2, 2025

From $HOME/bin running:
./Geeqie-latest-x86_64.AppImage --help
or
./Geeqie-latest-x86_64-AppImage/squashfs-root/AppRun --help
gives the same output as above.

ls -l Geeqie-latest-x86_64-AppImage/squashfs-root/AppRun.wrapped
gives:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 cclark cclark 14 Jan 2 10:12 Geeqie-latest-x86_64-AppImage/squashfs-root/AppRun.wrapped -> usr/bin/geeqie

This hack works for me - in ./Geeqie-latest-x86_64-AppImage/squashfs-root/AppRun replacing
exec "$this_dir"/AppRun.wrapped "$@"
with
dest=$(readlink -f $this_dir/AppRun.wrapped)
exec "$dest" "$@"

gives the --help output
Usage:
geeqie [OPTION…] [path...]

mowgli pushed a commit to BestImageViewer/geeqie that referenced this issue Jan 10, 2025
@caclark
Fix problems with extracted AppImage
0b20b06 
Problems reported with linuxdeploy AppImages are:
linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy#303
linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy#304

This patch is a temporary workaround.
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