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.