USM for Slackware 14.1 proper
Posted: 14 May 2014, 03:15
This is about using USM in a standard Slackware 14.1 environment which I have installed on a separate box to learn with. I'm learnin. The desktop environment is Xfce4, the default DE for Slackware.
Here I have a root account and a user account.
I logged out as "user" and logged in as "root". Then went to the main menu/System and clicked on USM. I got and error dialog box saying:
Failed to execute command "/opt/porteus-scripts/xorg/psu /usr/bin/usmgui".
Failed to execute child process "/opt/porteus-scripts/xorg/psu" (no such file or directory)
I knew from a past post of brokenman's here that the "psu" was in reference to Penn State University, just up the road from me by the way, which is a mirror site for Slackware. So I didn't see any need for that path to be used in launching the USM GUI. Also notice there is a space in the first line between the psu and /usr.
My solution was to root edit the usm.desktop file in /usr/share/applications. I simply commented out the line:
##Exec=/opt/porteus-scripts/xorg/psu /usr/bin/usmgui (notice the space is there)
and placed the following line in the file:
Exec=/usr/bin/usmgui
This worked for me and the USMGUI is launched from the menu directly.
I learned this today and hope not to un-learn it anytime soon. Just thought it may be helpful to others.
Sean
Here I have a root account and a user account.
I logged out as "user" and logged in as "root". Then went to the main menu/System and clicked on USM. I got and error dialog box saying:
Failed to execute command "/opt/porteus-scripts/xorg/psu /usr/bin/usmgui".
Failed to execute child process "/opt/porteus-scripts/xorg/psu" (no such file or directory)
I knew from a past post of brokenman's here that the "psu" was in reference to Penn State University, just up the road from me by the way, which is a mirror site for Slackware. So I didn't see any need for that path to be used in launching the USM GUI. Also notice there is a space in the first line between the psu and /usr.
My solution was to root edit the usm.desktop file in /usr/share/applications. I simply commented out the line:
##Exec=/opt/porteus-scripts/xorg/psu /usr/bin/usmgui (notice the space is there)
and placed the following line in the file:
Exec=/usr/bin/usmgui
This worked for me and the USMGUI is launched from the menu directly.
I learned this today and hope not to un-learn it anytime soon. Just thought it may be helpful to others.
Sean