topic title: [SOLVED] Catfish is not opening
Posts: 21
TianLan
Joined: 24 May 2014
#1
I cannot open Catfish. I tried it via the Icon in the menu, via run and via terminal.

The terminal told me:
tianlan@mx1:~
$ catfish
/usr/bin/catfish: line 2: fg: no job control
tianlan@mx1:~

Can someone tell me how to create the missing 'job control'.

the only entry in /usr/bin/catfish is:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
%python% /usr/share/catfish/bin/catfish.py"$@"

Greetings from Taiwan,
TianLan
Last edited by TianLan on 20 Jun 2014, 16:35, edited 1 time in total.
Alanarchy
Posts 0
Alanarchy
#2
The terminal told me:
tianlan@mx1:~
$ catfish
/usr/bin/catfish: line 2: fg: no job control
RoxTerm is the cause of that warning. It always says that if you try to use sux. I know that doesn't help with running catfish, but it stops you looking at the wrong bug.

What does .xsession-errors:0.0 say?
Posts: 21
TianLan
Joined: 24 May 2014
#3
.xsession-errors says: /usr/bin/catfish: line 2: fg: no job control
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#4
This is a bug in Debian's catfish.

You could try this.

Edit /usr/bin/catfish (as root)
Change

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%python% /usr/share/catfish/bin/catfish.py"$@"
to

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python /usr/share/catfish/catfish.py"$@"
Posts: 21
TianLan
Joined: 24 May 2014
#5
@anticapitalista changing the code according to your suggestion made Catfish working.
The problem is solved.
Thank you and all who helped.
Tian Lan