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Where is the executable to invoke the GNOME failed dialog on Fedora?

For the debugging purpose, I want to invoke the GTK failed dialog.

In Ubuntu, I can find the binary at /usb/lib/gnome-session/gnome-session-failed. Is the same function executable available in Fedora? I tried to search around but could not find it in the system.

  • Fedora version: 18 (Spherical Cow)
  • GNOME version: 3.6
Solution

  • You can check files in a rpm package this way:

    $ rpm -ql gnome-session | grep failed
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-session-failed.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-session-failed.target
/usr/libexec/gnome-session-failed

    Seems for the version you are using there was not such executable and the fail dialog would run by doing : gnome-session whale. See: https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-session/blob/e59b938c644a78236fd5ed9d708022be3b990ddc/gnome-session/main.c#L296