Re: X menus won't run xterm pgms

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Bill Marcum(bmarcum@iglou.com) is reported to have said:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 12:51:09PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > Afternoon all.
> > 
> >   I have just discovered a problem with my X menus.  It seems that any
> > program that requires an xterm, won't run.  I searched the archives
> > but could not find any other reference to this.  
> > 
> >   A search on google anly brought up something called
> > 'sensisable-xtermumu' which seems to deal with different locales but
> > doesn't seem like what I am seeing.  The BTS was also of no help.
> > 
> >   I 'thought' the old /usr/lib/menu system used something like 'needs
> > xterm' but that seems to have changed.  I see no references to that in
> > any of the files that require xterm.  Instead I see
> > 'x-terminal-emulator'  called out in the makers menus, but it doesn't
> > bring up the programs (mutt, telnet, mc, iptraf, etc).
> > 
> >   I can, from an xterm, execute /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator
> > and it does bring up an xterm (uxterm) but clicking on the menu does not.
> > 
> Is /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator a symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator?

Yes
ls -l /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
lrwxrwxrwx /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator -> /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator
and
ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator
lrwxr-xr-x /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator -> /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm

But note the permission change.  Humm....  More to try.

Thanks Bill.

Wayne
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