-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 October 2005 11:52, Børre Gaup wrote: > Vuossárga, golggotmánu 17. b. 2005 17:11, Mathijs Romans čálii: > > Does anyone know why I can't open an xterm from the KDE "Run Command" > > (Alt+F2) since upgrading to KDE 3.4? > > > > When I open the dialog and type "xterm", even the correct icon appears (a > > gear), but when I press enter, an error message appears: "KDEInit could > > not lanch '/usr/bin/xterm'. To check the path I run "echo $PATH > test" > > in "Run Command", after which: > > $ cat test > > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games > > > > so it should be able to find /usr/bin/X11/xterm, right? > > Absolutely.
No, not necessarily. The minicli (Alt+F2) uses the environment variables of the kdeinit process (which one of the first processes that are started when you log into KDE) to find and execute applications, while executing "echo $PATH > test" executes a shell (which sources the appropriate .bashrc or tcshrc or cshrc files) and in that shell executs the echo. So, the "echo $PATH" might have different environment variables than minicli uses. If you add /usr/bin/X11 in .bashrc, you might want to do it in ~/.kde/env/*.sh instead. Cheers, Reinhold - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/ * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDVh7TTqjEwhXvPN0RAj5LAKDPrvIz0Qb0TtPvJ05Jzb26Xc23/gCghFFQ +mlrYnyzKZfpo0XjsQW+TD8= =lRsb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
