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emelfm2 starts from terminal, not otherwise
Now resolved. Here's the scoop, if you're interested.
What this was all about was specific to emelfm2 on my system, though it is probably relevant to some other apps as well. My wording may not be precise, as I'm neither a programmer nor the son of a programmer. But here goes:
Emelfm2 apparently needs the LANG or LC_CTYPE environment variable to be set for each shell. When I would start emelfm2 from a terminal window, it launched just fine. However, when I attempted to start it from a WindowMaker menu item or fbpanel menu item, the required environment was not being set.
Solution (for Gentoo, anyway): I edited /etc/profile to set this variable to "en_US.utf8" (my preference; yours may well be different). Now this environment variable applies to all shells (I think).
Last edited by dhave; 12-30-2005 at 08:53 AM.
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