Bug 451734

Summary:	Plasma is unable to autostart programs with a space in the path
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Siddhartha <kde>
Component:	Startup process	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Siddhartha 2022-03-20 18:42:57 UTC

SUMMARY
One of my autostart application has the following line in its .desktop:

Exec="/opt/Mullvad VPN/mullvad-vpn" %U

This leads to Plasma unable to execute this on startup. In the logs, I see:

systemd[1869]: app-mullvad\x2dvpn@autostart.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /opt/Mullvad: No such file or directory

It seems the quoted path is not being parsed properly when auto generating the systemd startup service.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.93.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.16.15-arch1-1 (64-bit)

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2022-03-22 23:36:20 UTC

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/22831

Comment 2 Siddhartha 2022-03-23 02:40:37 UTC

Thanks David!