[aklug] Re: alt+F2 run command dialog box

From: Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>
Date: Thu Sep 23 2010 - 17:42:54 AKDT

On Thursday 23 September 2010, Greg Madden elucidated thus:
> On Thursday 23 September 2010 17:12:05 Greg Madden wrote:
> > I have to enter the full path to run a command that is in a dir
> > that is is my path. The dir is in my path, added by me, it is
> > '/opt/triniity/bin' , which is the path to Trinity's KDE stuff.
> >
> > Lots of references found about using the alt+F2 run dialog,
> > mostly 'just use it' or a substitute, but I can't find out what is
> > happenning to the command I enter. Any one know what is behind the
> > scenes in the Run dialog, I use WindowMaker and its version.
> >
> > I have what appear to be other path related issues, starting an app
> > from other preferred app settings, Firefox, OpenOffice. Running an
> > app from a terminal does work though, so it seems my path is
> > working
>
> Oops, soon as I send the email I find more info. this is what the
> ~/menu entry looks like:
> "Run program" SHEXEC %a(Run, Type the command to run: )
>
> Still not sure what is means or how it relates to my PATH.

It probably has to be in your system (or local shell's path).

j

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