Re: [Flightgear-devel] desktop launcher for fgrun not working in KDE

[Dave P. <ski...@mi...>]

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 05:23 +0000, Martin Spott wrote:

> Maybe you want to create a script wrapper that gets called by the
> launcher, which reads the environment and later on calls FlightGear.
> The better solution is to make the launcher read the environment
before
> calling the program but I don't know it they typically have such a
> switch to enable this behaviour.
> 
> Cheers,
>       Martin.
Thanks Martin!  

This worked in the KDE desktop launcher and in both the KDE and Gnome
panel launchers. I put the following 3 lines in a file
"fgrun-launch.sh":

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
fgrun

and then put the following as the command in the launchers:

sh fgrun-launch.sh

May not need the 2nd export.

It occurs to me that I have had lines in .bashrc that should have used
jscal to reinstall joystick calibrations that did not work with the
launcher.  Such js calibration instructions could be added to this file
instead of putting them in .bashrc which appears to be ignored by the
launcher

Thanks again,
Dave Perry
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Dave Perry <ski...@mi...>