Re: Set GVim to open in tabs files launched by Unity

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:

On Nov 15, 4:36 pm, Alexandre Provencio <alexandreproven...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> the default behavior on Ubuntu system is to launch text files in new tabs
> on an existing Gedit instance. I have always liked to use Gvim instead but
> keeping this same scenario, so I make some changes on the gvim.desktop file
> as suggested here vim.wikia.com/wiki/Launch_files_in_new_tabs_under_Unix.
>
> This setting has worked ok for me back when my applications for launching
> files were basically nautilus and gnome-do, which still work up to now, but
> since the release of Unity which I use a lot, I cannot make it work
> smoothly with Gvim. It does work when launching files from Unity's Dash,
> but when I try to launch Gvim itself from Dash, it never opens. Also if
> there's a Gvim pinned to Unity as a Launcher, it is taken away from there
> by the time all tabs get closed.
>

Possibly the dash is expecting the application to not fork. Maybe
adding a -f argument will help things? There is probably a reason the
old arguments (as given in the tip) are as they are.

-f did not make it. 

This may be a good thing to bring up with Ubuntu support if you don't
get a better answer here. Without knowing what the Unity desktop
expects from the applications it launches, it is difficult to say what
you need to do with Vim.

I have already posted a question under ubuntuforums since i met Unity (about 6 months ago), but got no replies, maybe I can try askubuntu.

If there are multiple configurations used, one for launching files and
one for launching the app directly, probably the --remote stuff is not
needed in the latter, if that matters at all.

All applications trying to invoke gvim will look at the exec line of gvim.desktop file, and i think there's not a way of placing one exec line for launching the app directly and another for launching files, and by the way i may be wrong :)

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