Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:03:15 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: gnome Menu Editor: Some apps will not start Message-ID: <20011130150114.W1589-100000@big> In-Reply-To: <1007086650.14053.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On 30 Nov 2001, Joe Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 15:20, P. U. (Uli) Kruppa wrote: > 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 Yes thanx! I disabled "feedback in tasklist" > 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. ************************************ * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * * Germany * * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * ************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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