[openbox] Problem with bash script in Openbox menu

Wayne Oliver wayn0.ml at gmail.com
Sun Sep 15 17:06:10 EDT 2013


On 15 Sep 2013, at 10:50 PM, David Shaw <dj.shaw at btconnect.com> wrote:

> On 15/09/13 15:28, Dana Jansens wrote:
>> The '.' command won't search your path. You can probably replace '.'
>> with 'exec' (or just with nothing) and then not need the full path.
> 
> I did not know that, thank you.  However, it doesn't explain why the script *will* work as intended from the terminal, but *won't* from the openbox menu or gmrun unless I include the full path to the script, no matter how it's run, with or without a . or with exec.
> 
> David Shaw
> 

I would guess the environment variables are not se when running it from wherever else. 
PATH etc.

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Wayn0

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