On 29-Jun-2000 Roy John Little wrote:
> Dear list:
> While upgrading my glib-gtk libraries, I tried to first uninstall the
> originals using dselect.  When I realized that my whole x-windows system
> was being uninstalled, I did a ^C.  What I notice now is that xterm, the
> window I use for most of my work, will not execute x-type commands: xterm,
> xvidtune, xlock, xdvi, etc.  If I call up a Bash window, using the Debian
> menu, this has no trouble with respect to executing x-commands.  What
> could have gone wrong?
> 

possibly the path is not getting set when you launch the xterm.  echo $PATH and
see if the X bins are in there.

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