Simple Dropline Gnome Launcher Problem

W0bbles · 03-16-2006, 11:39 PM

I installed netbeans onto slackware 10.2 and have dropline gnome installed. I have always been a KDE and fluxbox person so I need some help on this problem. I want to add a launcher on my top panel for netbeans. Netbeans binary is installed in /opt/netbeans-5.0/bin as a shell script. I edited my $PATH for both my personal account and root and it works by typing in 'netbeans' in the command line. But when I add a launcher and specify the command as 'netbeans', I get:

Cannot Launch Icon
Details: Failed to execute child process "netbeans" (No such file or directory)

It works if I specify the location (/opt/netbeans-5.0/bin)

Any idea to fix this?

Aperculum · 03-17-2006, 04:11 PM

I think $PATH only affects you shell, not gnome/kde apps which may use other paths, so if it works with full path, why not use it?

one quick fix could be that you make link to /usr/bin

Code:

ln -s /opt/netbeans-5.0/bin/FILE /usr/bin/

just replace FILE with binary name