[kde-linux] Konqueror launches clicked executables from what path?

[Pollywog]

On 03/02/2006 05:16 pm, Morgan Venable wrote:
> Hi, I'm pretty new to Linux -- I've got an odd thing happening in
> Konqueror/KDE: Running Fedora Core 4, KDE 3.4.0-6 Redhat
>
> I have a binary "apool" which runs fine from the command line:
> [in /home/me/apps/apool99/)]
> $ ./apool
>
> User account owns it, not root, and it *is* executable.
>
> Works fine, runs -- it's an OpenGL pool game.
>
> However, when I navigate to this same location in Konqueror, and click on
> the "apool" binary, it doesn't run -- just launches and immediately closes
> a brief empty terminal.  Nothing else, and I can't see if there's anything
> happening in that brief moment.

Have you tried running the executable from a console (from the command line)?


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