On Tuesday 03 Jan 2006 22:40, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 January 2006 04:58 pm, Ian wrote:
> > Just had a really good freeze on my computer earlier in the day when I
> > tried to start Limewire from the menu. Nothing would work on the computer
> > although the mouse could still move. ctrl +esc, ctrl+alt+backspace,
> > ctrl+alt+delete did nothing. I even tried the raising skinny elephants
> > one (with great difficulty), eventually settling for the tried and tested
> > reset button. Starting Limewire from a bash prompt works fine. Any ideas
> > why? Limewire has only recently been installed and has only been started
> > once before, and that was from bash as well.
>
> Hmm, if it was dangerous to start it from the menu (for whatever reason) I
> know what I would do. I'd find the executeable that works, make an icon for
> it on my taskbar, and leave it at that.
>
> Of course, this doesn't tell you why the menu entry is crashing. Did you do
> a update-menus -v to make sure it was a current/valid menu entry? If it had
> not been installed before (like an older version) then this probably
> wouldn't matter.
It has a valid menu entry as far as the editor is concerned, I went in and
resaved it. It's no hassle to start it from bash, I just wondered why I would
need to...........
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