Re: [Notion-general] the path notion searches for "run:", debian menu

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:23:01PM +0200, Wojtek Aniszewski wrote:
> I've been using ion3 for at least 2 years on Ubuntu. Having changed
> Ubuntu do Debian lately, the change of ion3 to NotIon followed
> naturally.

Welcome!

> Now the problem is, I have had few things fixed up in old ion3
> system-wide configs and they were removed with the old system.
> 1. What is the actual path notion searches when I hit F3 and type a
> command? I'm pretty sure it is not the $PATH set in .bashrc, as I have
> things there (such as a script-containing dir) that are not found by
> notion in "Run:" prompt.

This script actually does look at the $PATH. However, this is probably the
active $PATH at the time notion is started - which is likely not from bash,
so indeed your .bashrc is probably not processed yet.

So you want to set your $PATH before the window manager is started. This is
unfortunately a bit messy. As far as I know most Display Managers (like GDM)
will process your ~/.profile , so you'll want to put your code extending the
$PATH in your ~/.profile. Bash, however, only reads your ~/.profile when there
is no ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login - so you'll either have to remove your 
~/.bash_profile and ~/.bash_login, or add '. ~/.profile' to ~/.bash_profile.

We need a user manual where we document stuff like this. I guess the wiki 
would be the proper place?

> 2. The debian menu issue. In cfg_ioncore.lua (which I inherited from
> ion3 and keep using along with rest of my configs)  I had these
> directives:
> 
> dopath("debian-menu-i18n")
> dopath("debian-menu")
> 
> which, as I understood "had something to do" with debian app menu
> available when pressing F12. (I have old-style fold out-menu, not
> queries). 

I also prefer the old-style menu. Perhaps we should consider making that the
default again?

> Now, as some of you may alreasy be guessing, Notion screams
> at startup:
> 
> Notion startup error log:
> >> Unable to find 'debian-menu-i18n' on search path.
> >> Unable to find 'debian-menu' on search path.
> 
> This error was remedied in goodold ion3 by creating symbolic links
> within ion3 /etc/X11/ion3 directory like:
> debian-menu-i18n.lua -> /var/lib/ion3/debian-menu-i18n.lua
> 
> Needless to say I can't do it without even having ion3:), nor the
> files debian-menu-i18n.lue etc. which are NOT shipped with notion. So
> what to do?

Notion configuration is backwards-compatible with ion3 configuration, so you
could probably get the debian-menu-i18n.lua from ion3 and use it in Notion.

Can you test that? We should consider shipping it with Notion.


Arnout