El Miércoles, 19 de Octubre de 2005 12:24, Reinhold Kainhofer escribió: > 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.
This will not be necessary in the near time, as the new xterm package
in
experimental (204-0pre1) is splitted from X.Org and finally moves xterm
to /usr/bin/xterm. :-)
Best regards,
Ender.
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