From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 30 8: 5:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mout01.kundenserver.de (mout01.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB8837B419 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 08:05:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.20.224.219] (helo=mrvdom03.schlund.de) by mout01.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 169qAF-0000su-00; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:05:23 +0100 Received: from pd950c7bc.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.80.199.188]) by mrvdom03.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 169qAE-0004EF-00; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:05:22 +0100 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:03:15 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" X-X-Sender: To: Joe Clarke Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: gnome Menu Editor: Some apps will not start In-Reply-To: <1007086650.14053.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Message-ID: <20011130150114.W1589-100000@big> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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