change in launcher behavior from FC3 to FC4
Dave Perry
skidavem at mindspring.com
Thu Dec 22 03:42:18 UTC 2005
>Dave Perry wrote:
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> I just did an upgrade install of FC4 over FC3 on my Dell Latitude
> notebook. I can add launchers for programs that I installed from
> RPMs and they work. But if I add a launcer for a program that I
> compiled (./configure && make && Make install), the launcer dos
> not work. I select "Run in terminal" and the terminal window
> flashes for a fraction of a second and the app dies. Same exact
> response if I use "Run Application". The particular app is
> "fgrun", a gui front end for FlightGear. If I just type "fgrun" in
> a terminal, the app launhces, but the launcher does not work
> whether I put it in a pannel or on the desktop. This worked fine
> under FC3 on the same notebook. I just tried several other non RPM
> compiled apps and got the same results. Any ideas what changed
> from FC3 to FC4 that could cause this? Yes, I updated FC4 with a
> very lengthy "yum update".
>
>Thanks in advance for any help.
>Dave P.
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Richard England wrote:
> Did you give a fully qualified path name to "fgrun" in your launcher
> or just the command "fgrun"? Where was fgrun installed? If it is not
> in a location referred to in your PATH environment variable, it may
> not be seen in the launcher....
fgrun is installed in /usr/local/bin andI added this to the path in
.bashrc as
export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/user/sbin:/usrlocal/sbin:/usr/local/bin.
As I said, fgrun works when launched from my home directory via the
command line, either by just typing
fgrun
or by typing
/usr/local/bin/fgrun
but not with a launcher with or without the full path. This all works
on several other FC3 systems. Thanks for the suggestions.
Dave Perry
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