[Scottish] Suse desktop short cut problem

[Calum Matheson]

Hello,

When you say they are in /usr/bin, do you mean you chose to put them 
there (and hence the actual binaries are inside another folder 
within?), or are symbolic links set up in /usr/bin?

If the executables themselves are not directly inside /usr/bin, then 
you could set up symlinks using the following command:

ln -s /usr/bin/firefox <absolute-firefox-binary-location>
ln -s /usr/bin/thunderbird <absolute-thunderbird-binary-location>

(the absolute locations will be something like 
'/usr/local/firefox/firefox', depending on where you chose to put 
them).

This will ensure the executables can be found from your path, so you 
shouldn't need to cd to the directory.  Simply typing 'thunderbird' in 
any console should launch the app.  Does this work?

Also, how are the desktop shortcuts configured?  If links to the 
executables are in your path, then the command 'thunderbird' should be 
all that's needed in the shortcut's preferences.

Hoe that helps a little.

-c

On 5 Feb 2005, at 14:08, Alan wrote:

> Hi there,
> I'm running Suse9.1 and have installed Firefox and Thunderbird.  They 
> live in usr/bin/ and I've created 2 desktop shortcuts. However, when I 
> click the icon to star app the icon just bounces up and down for a 
> while and nothing happens.  I can only actually start the apps by 
> CDing to the DIR and  typing  ./thunderbird  in  the Shell.
>
> Has any had a similar problem and came up with the solution?
>
> Thanks a mil,
> Alan Rutherford
>
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