http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27014
Summary: exo from xfce4 causes "Failed to execute default Web Browser" error in gnome Product: Wine Version: 1.3.19 Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: basinilya@gmail.com
Hi. Recently, in addition to Gnome I installed xfce. Now, if firefox already started, and I open URLs in wine, I get this message box: ****************** Failed to execute default Web Browser. No child processes. ****************** $ ps -Af /usr/lib/xfce4/exo-1/exo-helper-1 --launch WebBrowser http://www.winehq.org/
With trial and error I found that the package exo is causing this. http://www.xfce.org/projects/exo
To reproduce, install just exo package and do: $ wine start http://www.winehq.org/
It's only in wine. For example, xdg-open works fine.
Window manager Gnome 2, default browser firefox. Wine 1.3.14-1.3.19 exo 0.6.0