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What`s wrong with xterm and local bin? (Solved)
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Create classic hello world:
tux@slitaz:~$ echo -e "#!/bin/sh\necho \"Hello, world!\"" > /home/tux/.local/bin/hello
Yes, it works! ;-)
tux@slitaz:~$ cat /home/tux/.local/bin/hello
#!/bin/sh
echo "Hello, world!"
tux@slitaz:~$ hello
Hello, world!
tux@slitaz:~$
Go to my ~/Downloads/Distro folder and start hello from there:tux@slitaz:~$ cd Downloads/Distro/
It works again, good.
tux@slitaz:~/Downloads/Distro$ hello
Hello, world!
tux@slitaz:~/Downloads/Distro$
Now, close the xterm, open PCManFM and go to my ~/Downloads/Distro folder. Then press F4 to invoking xterm in this folder. Then try to run hello again:tux@slitaz:~/Downloads/Distro$ hello
It`s don't work now, it`s broke. What`s wrong?
-sh: hello: not found
tux@slitaz:~/Downloads/Distro$ -
it's a PATH problem, if you launch xterm from pcmanfm it does not launch a login shell, so it does not source /home/$USER/.profile
you can check the difference doingecho $PATH
from a lxpanel launched xterm and from a pcmanfm xterm
you may have the desired behavior changing pcmanfn edit > preferences > advanced > terminal from xterm to xterm -ls -
reading this
fabio@q1s:~$ xterm -h | grep login
i understand that -ls turn on login shell.
-/+ls turn on/off login shell
fiddling with this thing, which makes me curious about it, i find out that probably pcmanfm source the .profile file when you login in slim. i think that being started in daemon mode from openbox at startup it does not source .profile again. if you start the x session with no ~/.local/bin folder and you create it during the session you just need to logout and login again to have the right PATH in pcmanfm shell. was it your case, did you create ~/.local/bin in the same session that produced the error?
i think that if you make xterm -ls default terminal in pcmanfm it sources .profile and this let you have correct PATH for the rest of the session, it does not matter anymore if it's xterm, xterm -ls or xterm +ls, unless you delete .local/bin.
hope to get it right now :-) -
I don't remember exactly, but seems like folder ~/.local/bin appeared after I installed Opera as regular user. I use SliTaz-3.0 frugal (Live-HDD) installation on my Aspire One netbook (win preinstalled, NTFS FS, 1 GiB RAM).
I raised this question because my RAM is small and I can't install all applications that i want (GIMP, Inkscape, Go-oo etc). When I repack rootfs.gz with tazusb writefs none my RAM divides to 2: one half for current system, and other half for rootfs.gz archive. I can't have rootfs.gz bigger than ~500 MiB. Else, system just hangs while tazusb writefs.
I have alot of HDD space. Seems like now I can install some packages locally (in user folder) for persistent without growing rootfs.gz size.
Other decision is full installation (but I should divide my HDD and create ext3 partition, and I don't want to delete existing windows). And another decision is some sort of loop file, like in Puppy (aufs of unionfs plus FS-in-file), but I don't know how I can make this behavior.
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