Re: Starting a program from a command line versus clicking an icon.

[Max Okumoto <okumoto@xxxxxxxx>]

walt wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Eduardo Tongson wrote:
>
>
> > On 8/22/05, walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > > xterm -bg `rlc` (gives a random-light-colored background)
> > >
> > > This works great when I type the command from an xterm
> > > window -- but it fails when I click on a gnome or xfce
> > > icon containing the same command.
>
>
> > what happens when you quote it
> > "xterm -bg `rlc`"
>
>
> Really strange behavior -- the xfce gui complains that the
> second " can't be found.  No idea why.  I also tried several
> combinations of single quotes and backslashes and nothing
> worked.
>
> In any case I followed Michael's suggestion and wrote a
> shellscript which works the way I wanted.  (I notice that
> xfce's version of xterm is actually a shellscript which
> invokes xterm, and now I know why :o)

One posibility is that your window manager had the wrong
path.  Unix windowing system uses environ(7) to obtain the
path.   So depending on how your wondow manager is started
up, your path may not contain the directory you put your
rlc program.  In many cases, you need to restart the window
manager when you update your PATH enviornment variable.

					Max