Problem launching program

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Olle Eriksson wrote:

>I am having the same problem when running programs by aliases. Neither
>Alt+F2 nor the mini command prompt will run something that I have
>provided an alias for. If I select the "Run in terminal" i get a "Can't
>execvp eterm: No such file or directory.", and otherwise I get a "Failed
>to execute child process 'eterm' (No such file or directory)".
>  
>
aliases are a function of your shell, not of the OS itself.  i'd have to 
look at the code, but i'd bet that even when you use "run in terminal" 
the shell itself is never invoked, and thus alias expansions won't 
work.  at any rate, even if the shell _is_ invoked, depending upon where 
you define your aliases, you may need to be running a login shell for 
the aliases to be read.

if you want to do your lowercased-eterm trick, i'd suggest creating a 
bin/ directory in your homedir, and then making a symlink from there to 
the real Eterm binary.  be sure to add $HOME/bin to your path, of 
course, and then restart xfce.

    -brian