Re: FVWM: system PATH for executables?

From: Dan Norris <d-norri_at_forrest.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 16:55:46 -0500

> >>>>> "DN" == Dan Norris <d-norri_at_uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> DN> In my .fvwmrc, I have lots of menus for tons 'o programs, but they
> DN> don't seem to be in the PATH. My question is, what PATH does fvwm
> DN> use? How can I set it? I'm not sure exactly what the problem is,
> DN> but if I specify a full path to a particular program, it works.
> DN> If I don't, it fails. Is there a way to catch some error output?
>
> Fvwm tells "sh" to execute your program. Probably "sh" is not properly
> configured in your system, maybe because people there use [t]csh?
>
> You can use
>
> ExecUseShell /usr/local/bin/tcsh
>
> to make fvwm2 use tcsh instead of the default sh, if that's your problem.

Any way to do that in the ol' fvwm-1.24r?

Dan
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Received on Thu May 30 1996 - 17:47:06 BST

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