Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
> Yesterday at 3:37am, shea martin said:
>
> > I have udes bb fot over a year now. I have never had a problem with the
> > menu until now. I am trying to launch a program called 'ebench'.
> > menu entry looks like this:
> > [exec] (eBench) {ebench}
> >
> > if I type ebench in an xterm, the progie fires up.
> > if I switch out of x, into console, the program works.
> >
> > when I click on the menu item in bb, nothing happens. I subsituted
> > {ebench} with kedit, and voila~, it works.
> >
> > I tried substituting {ebench} with {xterm -e ebench} just to get an
> > error message if nothing else. But I got the following:
> > xterm: Can't execvp ebench
> >
> > what the heck does that mean?
> >
> > I am wondering if it has something to do with the enviroment variables
> > that ebench needs to run. $EIFFEL4, $PLATFORM both need to be exported.
> >
> > both my .bashrc and .bash_profile contain the following 2 lines:
> > export EIFFEL4=/usr/local/Eiffel45
> > export PLATFORM=linux-glibc2.1
> >
> > Has anyone had a similar problem before???
>
> The variables _might_ not be exported, e.g. when you run XDM. Sou you
> could do this (in bb-0.61.1):
>
> [exec] (eBench) {EIFFEL4=/usr/local/Eiffel45 PLATFORM=linux-glibc2.1 ebench}
>
> (all on one line)
>
> Or export the variables from your ~/.xinitrc:
>
> export EIFFEL4=/usr/local/Eiffel45
> export PLATFORM=linux-glibc2.1
> exec blackbox
>
> Wilbert
Tried, but did not work. Thanks for the suggestion. Man this is annoying.
Even the xter window that is spawned from {xterm -e ebench} can start xterm if
I manually type it!
I have never seen the likes of this before.
Any other suggestions.
Thanks.
Shea
