The example here is Citrix's Workspace App which launched via xfce4-panel
works, but does not work if one copies the entry from xfce4-panel onto ones
desktop and tries to launch it from there.
The desktop file for the xfce4-panel has been auto-generated by running
Citrix's selfservice program.
launched from xfce4-panel, the parent process being xfce4-panel, the citrix
workspace app works
thomas:~ # ps -ef
thomas 2675 2560 0 06:59 ? 00:00:31 xfce4-panel --display :0.0
--sm-client-id 21c415512-902c-4c2b-9948-e34db3a0ee27
thomas 14549 2675 0 09:40 ? 00:00:00
/opt/Citrix/ICAClient/util/storebrowse -L DeliveryController.Company-Desktop
$S1-2 -f
file:///home/thomas/.local/share/applications/Citrix_subscribed_DeliveryController.Company-Desktop%20$S1-2.desktop
https://citrix.our.company.de/citrix/company/discovery
launched from the desktop, the parent process here being thunar, the parameters
from the "Exec" Line of the desktop file are parsed differently and the citrix
workspace app does not work:
thomas:~ # ps -ef
thomas 2679 2560 0 06:59 ? 00:00:04 Thunar --sm-client-id
27dd9d8d6-3dd8-4284-a2b9-92d5daed9455 --daemon
thomas 26063 2679 0 09:43 ? 00:00:00
/opt/Citrix/ICAClient/util/storebrowse -L DeliveryController.Company-Desktop
\$S1-2 -f
/home/thomas/Desktop/Citrix_subscribed_DeliveryController.Company-Desktop
$S1-2.desktop https://citrix.our.company.de/citrix/company/discovery
the 'Exec' lines of both desktop files are indentical (as one would expect):
thomas@thomas:~> grep Exec
"/home/thomas/.local/share/applications/Citrix_subscribed_DeliveryController.Company-Desktop
\$S1-2.desktop"
Exec=/opt/Citrix/ICAClient/util/storebrowse -L
"DeliveryController.Company-Desktop \\$S1-2" -f %k
https://citrix.our.company.de/citrix/company/discovery
thomas@thomas:~> grep Exec
"/home/thomas/Desktop/Citrix_subscribed_DeliveryController.Company-Desktop
\$S1-2.desktop"
Exec=/opt/Citrix/ICAClient/util/storebrowse -L
"DeliveryController.Company-Desktop \\$S1-2" -f %k
https://citrix.our.company.de/citrix/company/discovery