Seamonkey start problems from menu

Mişu Moldovan dumol at gnome.ro
Mon Jan 28 08:58:48 CET 2008


John Coppens <john at jcoppens.com> a scris:
> Hello all.
> 
> Had some problems with the title, as the issue is strange:
> 
> 1) I installed seamonkey (1.1.7 if that matters) under /opt
>    (tried both the tar.gz and the installer versions)
> 2) Made a symlink from /usr/local/bin, to be able to call it
>    without adding to path.
> 3) From an rxvt terminal, 'seamonkey' starts fine, so the
>    symlink works ok.
> 4) Adding it to the XFCE menu (XFCE 4.4.1), I tried to 
>    put just 'seamonkey', but:
> 
> Seamonkey _does_ start (so does seamonkey-bin), but nothing appears on
> the desktop! (I check that it was running with 'ps ax'. Also, trying
> to run seamonkey then goes into the profilemanager window, because
> another copy is running).
> 
> I did the symlink thing with firefox, exactly the same way/ and that
> one works.

Does Seamonkey by any chance have some libraries in /opt which are not
in LD_LIBRARY_PATH (although this contradicts with some of what you
say).

-- 
mişu
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