https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:11:20 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4075/how-to-debug-i3-dmenu-desktop/Hi, I have a .desktop file that starts an application just fine when using Gnome. However, when using i3-dmenu-desktop to start it, nothing happens. How can I debug what's going on? I tried running i3-dmenu-desktop in a terminal window, but there were no error messages at all. This is the .desktop file: [Desktop Entry] Name=SI Windowed Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/nikratio/.wine" wine C:\\\\windows\\\\command\\\\start.exe /Unix /home/nikratio/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Start\\ Menu/Programs/Cryptic\\ Comet/SI\\ Windowed.lnk Type=Application StartupNotify=true Path=/home/nikratio/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Cryptic Comet/Solium Infernum Icon=0FCC_Solium Infernum Windowed.0 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:36:03 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4075/how-to-debug-i3-dmenu-desktop/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4075/how-to-debug-i3-dmenu-desktop/?answer=4190#post-id-4190You can use `strace -s 2048 i3-dmenu-desktop` if you want to see everything i3-dmenu-desktop is doing. More to the point, however, is checking the i3 logfile for the command that i3 receives. See http://i3wm.org/docs/debugging.html for details. Once you checked the logfile and verified that the .desktop file is actually correct with regards to escaping, feel free to open a bug at http://bugs.i3wm.org/Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:11:20 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4075/how-to-debug-i3-dmenu-desktop/?answer=4190#post-id-4190