Seamonkey start problems from menu

Robby Workman xfce at rlworkman.net
Sat Jan 26 05:16:00 CET 2008


John Coppens wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:37:54 -0800
> "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Or, I guess in this case, you could kill xfdesktop, and start it from a
>> terminal window.  Apps started from the desktop right-click menu should
>> then get that terminal as stdout/stderr.  If you're using the menu
>> plugin in the panel, you'd kill xfce4-panel and start that from a
>> terminal instead.
> 
> Ok. That was a very educational experiment... And the results too:
> 
> 1) Killed xfdesktop (tested that right-click menu stopped working)
> 2) Started xfdesktop from a terminal window. Menu reappeared.
> 3) Tried to start seamonkey from the menu - it _worked_! No errors,
>    no messages in the terminal window at all.
> 4) Logged out and restarted XFCE completely.
> 5) Seamonkey from the menu doesn't work anymore.
> 
> And now???


I have an idea...

What's the Exec= line from Seamonkey's .desktop file?

-RW



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