Fluxbox application-start-problem!

Question

Hello!
I'm using fluxbox on my PC. I added some applications to the fluxbox menu (e.g. amule, azureus, thunar) When I click on the amule-menu-entry the application starts. But when I click on azureus and thunar, there are no reaction.
I must open a console (eterm) and type "thunar" or "azureus" to start the applications. It looks like fluxbox don't know the path to thunar and azureus because the binary isn't in /usr/bin.
But I can start thunar and azurues at console without any errors.
My menu file:
[begin] (Fluxbox-1.0rc3)
[exec] (Eterm) {Eterm}
[exec] (GVim) {gvim}
[exec] (Thunar) {thunar}
[submenu] (FileSharing)
[exec] (aMule) {amule}
[exec] (Azureus) {azureus}
[end]
Any ideas?
Thanks for help!
Greetings,
Flasher

Answer 1

Flasher wrote:Output of which thunar: <code> /opt/xfce4/bin/thunar </code>
Output of which azureus: <code> /usr/bin/azureus </code>
Output of echo $PATH: <code> /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin:/opt/java/jre/bin:/opt/xfce4/bin </code>
I logged the $PATH variable in the rc.d script and only the following paths are setted "/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin"
OK, at least I think I can now explain the above behavior:
At the time when your $PATH variable is /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin, thunar cannot be found because /opt/xfce4/bin isn't included yet and azureus because AFAIK it's a java application and needs java to run, which likely to be located in /opt/java/jre/bin (strange, mine is in /opt/java/bin, might be due to different versions...?).
Flasher wrote:---> the path variable changed after starting the daemons (including x-server and fluxbox) by rc.conf
Have you listed these daemons as the last in the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf or are there maybe some important services at the end, which might change the $PATH variable? Or you could try to add the source /etc/profile command into your rc.d script and log the $PATH variable again to see if the other paths are now included.