From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeff Clough Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problems starting emacs with correct environmental settings Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:11:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4A4D3EBD.6030407@chaosphere.com> References: <4A4D08FB.4010702@telenet.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246576376 23962 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2009 23:12:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:12:56 +0000 (UTC) To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> GNU Emacs List" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 03 01:12:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MMVSS-0004kF-HL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:12:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58982 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMVSR-0006y9-Pc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:12:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMVS1-0006xD-0I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMVRw-0006rx-Fe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:12:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35829 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMVRw-0006ru-B7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:12:16 -0400 Original-Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.124]:42415) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MMVRw-0004dA-3I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:12:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (really [66.65.230.106]) by hrndva-omta01.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090702231203028.RLIU1251@hrndva-omta01.mail.rr.com> for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:12:04 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) In-Reply-To: <4A4D08FB.4010702@telenet.be> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 090702-0, 07/02/2009), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65741 Archived-At: Alain Muls wrote: > Hi emacs users, > > On my ubuntu system I have in the top bar the icon (dragged from the > menu entry in Accessories) to launch emacs. By doing so, I have no > access to my PATH variable, eg. a compile (make -k) won't run. > > When I launch emacs from a shell, than there is no problem and make or > other scripts are available. What should I do to have the icon launch > emacs with my PATH set. > Running ubuntu 8.04 I have the following as my launcher in the same place it seems you do: /usr/bin/emacs2-x M-x compile brings up make -k and it works just fine. No problems at all. Anything I feed to this command as a "compiler" (cp, etc.) that's in my path resolves. If your launcher is set up the same way, it smells like something more fundamental is broken. :( Jeff -- Author of the Genesys System A "free" universal role-playing game. http://www.chaosphere.com/genesys/