Re: [Hampshire] Google Earth and Gnome menus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hampshire-bounces@??? [mailto:hampshire-
> bounces@???] On Behalf Of Hugo Mills
> Sent: 26 June 2010 17:58
> To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Google Earth and Gnome menus
>
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 06:34:09PM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote:
> > I quite like google earth but the version in lucid had ridiculously
> small
> > fonts. The sages suggested upgrading to a new version was preferable
> to
> > trying to fix the font sizes so I did precisely this. New version
> > installed and works wonderfully.
> >
> > The problem is that I can't get at it from the gnome menu. To run it,
> I
> > just do:
> >
> > ~/google-earth/googleearth &
> >
> > from a terminal and it's fine - good as gold. I've edited the gnome
> menu
> > so that the original menu entry points to the new path and not the old
> but
> > when I try and launch from the menu (or a desktop launcher) - no dice.
> No
> > error message or anything - it just doesn't launch. I've tried "run in
> > terminal", adding an & to the end of the command in case it was that.
> >
> > It must be something fundamental but I can't think what. As I say it
> runs
> > fine from the terminal - even as me - not as sudo so I don't think
> > it's a permissions thing.
>

>    Write a small shell script like this:

>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> set >/tmp/ge-vars.log
> ~/google-earth/googleearth >/tmp/ge-errors.log 2>&1
>
> set it to executable, and change your desktop launcher/menu entry to run
> that script instead. Then run it and see what the environment looks like,
> and whether there are any errors reported.
>

>    Hugo.

>
Thanks Hugo - it's a libstdc++ error - I should be able to fix it from
there.

Cheers
Rob