Ubuntu: Installed the agent, ran "triggercmdagent", what next?

[A Former User]

I installed the deb (version 1.0.1) from the homepage, ran "triggercmdagent" and entered the token, and the computer is showing up in the account.

But:

• There is no icon in the tray
• I found the file "~/.TRIGGERcmdData/commands.json", and it lists several commands, only one of which shows up on https://www.triggercmd.com/user/command/list?computer_id=...
• I have not found any instructions for adding new commands/triggers.

How does this work?

[Russ]

@knipknap, on a Linux box you'll probably want to install it as a service/daemon. That will make the commands with ground=background show up in your account. Background means those commands run in the contexts of the background service.

If you're not getting the icon, you can use this command to install the background service:

sudo sh /usr/share/triggercmdagent/resources/app/src/installdaemon.sh

What Linux OS are you using? I'd like to try to troubleshoot that icon issue if I can.

[A Former User]

@Russ Thanks for the info. Then I am guessing it has to do with a path mismatch:

sam@desky:~$ sudo sh /usr/share/triggercmdagent/resources/app/src/installdaemon.sh
sh: 0: Can't open /usr/share/triggercmdagent/resources/app/src/installdaemon.sh

I found the file here, but it seems to have /usr/share hardcoded:

sam@desky:~$ sudo sh /usr/lib/triggercmdagent/resources/app/src/installdaemon.sh
find: ‘/usr/share/triggercmdagent’: No such file or directory
Failed to enable unit: Unit file triggercmdagent.service does not exist.
Unit triggercmdagent.service could not be found.

System info:

sam@desky:~$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:	core-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch:printing-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch:security-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic

sam@desky:~$ ps -ef | grep triggercm
sam      21492 21329  0 08:12 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto triggercm
sam      24093  1628  0 Dez19 ?        00:02:14 /usr/lib/triggercmdagent/triggercmdagent
sam      24096 24093  0 Dez19 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/triggercmdagent/triggercmdagent --type=zygote --no-sandbox
sam      24129 24093  0 Dez19 ?        00:00:03 /usr/lib/triggercmdagent/triggercmdagent --type=gpu-process --no-sandbox --gpu-preferences=KAAAAAAAAACAAACAAQAAAAAAAAAAAGAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAAAAAAA --service-request-channel-token=...
sam      24131 24096  0 Dez19 ?        00:00:01 /usr/lib/triggercmdagent/triggercmdagent --type=renderer --no-sandbox --service-pipe-token=4FE14E7388B5C138861C0F676ECFBD1D --lang=en-US --app-path=/usr/lib/triggercmdagent/resources/app --node-integration=true --webview-tag=true --no-sandbox --background-color=#fff --num-raster-threads=2 --enable-main-frame-before-activation --enable-compositor-image-animations --service-request-channel-token=... --renderer-client-id=6 --shared-files=v8_context_snapshot_data:100,v8_natives_data:101

I can actually trigger the "Gnome Editor" default command and it works.

[Russ]

@knipknap, thanks for showing me that path mismatch. I'll need to somehow make that path variable depending on the Linux flavor so you can install the background service on Ubuntu 18.

You're able to trigger Gnome Editor because it's a foreground trigger, and the agent is running in foreground mode. You'll see that in commands.json.

EDIT: I updated the GUI deb version of the agent, and confirmed it works on Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10.

I found that my TRIGGERcmd tray icon showed up when I ran triggercmdagent, and inputted my token.

I fixed that path issue so it will work whether the path is /usr/lib/... or /usr/share/....

I installed the background service and my background commands worked.

Please give it a try. Again thanks for reporting the bug.

[A Former User]

@Russ partial success :-). I deleted the old .deb, installed the new one (are you sure that the link is correct? Because the version number is unchanged.), deleted the computer from https://www.triggercmd.com/user/computer/list and did the following:

$ triggercmdagent 
(electron) The 'lstatSyncNoException' function has been deprecated and marked for removal.
(electron) 'app.makeSingleInstance(cb)' is deprecated. Use 'app.requestSingleInstanceLock() and app.on('second-instance', cb)' instead.
No token exists.  Login to request one.
Attempting to log in with token xxx
handleSubmission token xxx
Token saved for next time.
You must subscribe before adding another computer.
Attempting to log in with token xxx
handleSubmission token xxx
Token saved for next time.
Tokenfile: /home/sam/.TRIGGERcmdData/token.tkn
ComputerIDfile: /home/sam/.TRIGGERcmdData/computerid.cfg
Logging in with saved token to run foreground tasks.
Computer ID xxx saved for next time.
Write backup completed.
Initiated command removals
Initiated command adds


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Added Gnome Editor

...and the computer is online again, but no icon in the panel.

But installation of the background agent works now!

[Russ]

@knipknap, nice! That's progress.

I'm not sure why the icon isn't showing. Can you think of anything that's not standard about your xwindows install? It show up for me and I took defaults when I installed Ubuntu Desktop v18

For now you can use some other editor to edit commands.json.