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Re: KDE "Run Command" won't start xterm



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,


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