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Ralph Cramden wrote:
> If I just type in say 'wireshark' from the terminal in gnome or any
> window manager it will say 'bash: wireshark: command not found'.
> This happens when trying to launch any app. Now if I type in the full
> path to the app ie. '/sw/bin/wireshark' it will launch.
> Is this a problem with my path? If so how do i fix it? I am running
> gnome from my /private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, because when I try to run
> anything from my .xinitrc file in my home folder X11 crashes. So I
> edited the bottom line in the /private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to get any
> window manager to work.
>
>
You shouldn't have needed to modify private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (from
which I deduce that you're on 10.5).
Apple's X11 ignores your personal path settings, at least for the
current versions (I believe the newest version of Xquartz doesn't do
this).
1) You need to make sure your personal .xinitrc file starts with
source /sw/bin/init.sh
or
. /sw/bin/init.sh
If you do that then the window manager should launch. If not, then
there may be something else wrong with it, like a stray character from
using a non-Unix-line-ending-friendly text editor.
2) X11 terminals don't inherit this, though. On 10.5 you should be
able to launch X11 apps from Terminal.app (if that doesn't work you have
a more fundamental PATH issue) because that reads your login
information. To get the same behavior in an X11 terminal, you can just run
source /sw/bin/init.sh
manually (assuming you're using bash as your shell); or you can use
bash -l
(again, assuming bash) to run a login shell, or you can use the options
for the terminal you want to run to make it a login shell, e.g. "xterm -ls".
- --
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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