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Should Lumina-DE.desktop use absolute pathnames? #713

Closed outpaddling closed 4 years ago

outpaddling commented 4 years ago

Currently it contains:

Exec=start-lumina-desktop TryExec=start-lumina-desktop

I found that this does not work with SLiM login manager.

Should these be expanded to absolute pathnames? This could be considered a SLiM or local env issue as well, but it seems to me an absolute pathname would be safer than relying on PATH in this case.

q5sys commented 4 years ago

Im not 100% sure, but I think the reason Ken did not make this an absolute path is that some OS's put things in different places. ie. /usr/bin vs /bin Hard coding the path will break it for any OS using a different path

outpaddling commented 4 years ago

I failed to mention that this is on FreeBSD. We could leave it alone in the source and patch it in the FreeBSD port, or just blame it on SLiM. There may be other desktop envs that don't use absolute pathnames either.