Beginning with KDE 2.1 Beta 2, I have 2 applications that will NOT launch from any KDE applink or menu entry that I create, and I can't figure out why they won't launch, because if I enter the identical command line from inside a (bash) terminal window WILL launch either application. I had hoped that KDE 2.1 final would resolve this issue, but it has not. The first app is: Corel WordPerfect 8 , which normally launches by entering: /usr/share/wordperfect/wpbin/xwp The second app is: Polarbar Mailer, a java mailreader that I usually launch by running the following "executable" scriptfile (start_polarbar) which contains: #!/bin/bash # Script to start the PolarBar Mailer under Linux. The script accepts # as parameter 1 = $pbmdir the path to the polarbar install directory, # which defaults to the value of /usr/local/polarbar # as parameter 2 = $maildir the path $2 the path to the Mailer directory, # which defaults to $HOME/Mailer # as parameter 3 = $jdkdir the path to the version of the jdk to use. # which defaults to /usr/local/jdk118 # This allows multiple different code base versions installed in different # locations to be run under different jdks by passing parameters # Set permissions for writing config and POP files umask o-rwx # Set directory values if [ $1 ]; then pbmdir=$1 else pbmdir=/$HOME/polarbar fi if [ $2 ]; then maildir=$2 else maildir=$pbmdir/Mailer fi if [ $3 ]; then jdkdir=$3 else jdkdir=/usr/jdk118 fi # Export some variables needed by some JDKs # setexport PATH=$jdkdir/bin:$PATH export JAVA_HOME=$jdkdir/ # Change to installation directory cd $pbmdir # Run mailer setting "Mailer" directory to user's mail directory. java -nojit -classpath $pbmdir:$pbmdir/polarbar.jar:$pbmdir/hotjavabean.jar:$CLASSPATH org.polarbar.mailer -d $maildir # End of script Polarbar will NOT even launch from a KDE applink if I check the "Run in terminal" box! Does anyone have any idea as to what might be causing these problems, and what I might do to resolve them? I now have a forehead shaped indentation in the surface of my desk from continued head banging! George
