Lex, Thanks for the reply! (including the explanations and suggestions.)
Unfortunately, by the time I read this I had already purged the Debian installed copy of geany. I did some experimenting afterwards, and learned some things, but have more to learn. ;-) No need to read or reply to the rest of this--it just sort of helps remind me of what I did and didn't try so far. I very rarely start an app from the KDE menu--I almost always do it from a konsole or the "Run Command" popup. (Ignoring those that are automatically (re-)started when I do a rare reboot.) Those were the only two ways I started geany. I was (and still am, I think) under the impression that those commands are executed "as is"--I mean, the GUI didn't do anything strange to them. After the purge (in other words, too late), I did "which geany" from the konsole and from the Run Command pop up, and both showed /usr/local/bin/geany, which makes me think at least now they're using the (or some) PATH. Maybe KDE runs in sort of a separate shell with it's own environment? No, I guess not, as I ran echo $PATH from both konsole and the Run Command popup and both show the path I mentioned earlier: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/rhk/bin I'm not sure what kde does with respect to starting an application from the menu--even after I purged geany I found a menu entry for geany under Development--the "command" listed there shows as "geany %f"--I would have thought that would simply look for geany on the path. So, I've learned something, but have more to learn--next time I see an opportunity, I'll try some testing to see if I can pin down what was happening. regards, Randy Kramer On Wednesday 02 September 2009 08:20:22 am Lex Trotman wrote: > 2009/9/2 Randy Kramer <[email protected]>: > To check ---< good stuff snipped >--- _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
