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Subject: Re: gnome Menu Editor: Some apps will not start
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 15:20, P. U. (Uli) Kruppa wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> There are some (not all!) applications I can't start from
> the gnome menu.
> For example the Opera: Typing
> # opera &
> into an xterm will start the browser all right, typing
> 	opera
> into Menu Editor's command and clicking the menu will start
> some activity on my harddisk but the browser will not be
> diplayed. Even more interesting:
> When I put opera into the command and activate the "Run
> in terminal" button, Opera and a gnome terminal will be
> opened.
> With many other apps (like netscape or mozilla) there is no
> problem like this.

Do you have xalf enabled?  If so, disable Launch Feedback in Control
Center.  xalf cannot exec Linux binaries.  You may think that since
Netscape works, everything's okay.  However, even with Linux Netscape,
gnome execs it through a BSD binary gnome-moz-remote.

Joe

> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Uli.
> 
> 
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