Re: Problems starting emacs with correct environmental settings

[Jeff Clough]

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/