[Scottish] Suse desktop short cut problem

[Alan]

Calum Matheson wrote:

> 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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Hi,
I got  them working. The  executable path was pointing to :

/usr/bin/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin

after changing  it to :

/usr/bin/thunderbird/thunderbird

it worked just fine. As for the app being in there, yes I put it there.