[Scottish] Suse desktop short cut problem

[Iain Conochie]

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.

The short cut is probably pointing to the wrong place. Right click on 
the icon and choose properties, and in the URL tab there should be

/usr/bin/thunderbird

Cheers

Iain

> 
> Has any had a similar problem and came up with the solution?
> 
> Thanks a mil,
> Alan Rutherford
> 
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