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 19:14:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4A4D3F3E.1060303@chaosphere.com> References: <4A4D08FB.4010702@telenet.be> <4A4D3EBD.6030407@chaosphere.com> 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 1246576484 24157 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2009 23:14:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:14:44 +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 01:14:38 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 1MMVUD-0005BF-Gr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:14:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59528 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMVUC-000237-Hl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:14:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMVTt-00021e-CU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:14:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMVTo-0001qT-Of for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:14:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35855 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMVTo-0001q8-JG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:14:12 -0400 Original-Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.124]:34729) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MMVTo-0004x6-7M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:14:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (really [66.65.230.106]) by hrndva-omta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090702231411626.UHBB19852@hrndva-omta02.mail.rr.com> for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:14:11 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) In-Reply-To: <4A4D3EBD.6030407@chaosphere.com> 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:65742 Archived-At: Jeff Clough wrote: > 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 > Err... that's /usr/bin/emacs22-x Dang '2' key sticks. :) Jeff -- Author of the Genesys System A "free" universal role-playing game. http://www.chaosphere.com/genesys/