Opera 7.11 and RH9

[vwgtiturbo]

I installed (via install.sh script) opera 7.11 on a RH9 system. I don't know how familiar anyone is with opera, but it has a built in mail client, which is what I use for email. Anyways, I added the opera link to my K menu, the program opens as it should, but I cannot access the mail section. The button for mail is grayed out. However, if I run it from the terminal ("opera"), the program opens and the mail is accessible. I tried to mess with the preferences in opera, and set it to 'use opera' for mail, but no luck. Anyone ever had this problem, or know where I might be able to look? Thanks in advance.

Ron

[babbing]

this may seem obvious, but, is the command that is executed in the k-menu the same command you are executing on the command line?

[vwgtiturbo]

Well, I pointed to /usr/lib/opera..... for the kmenu, but from the command line, just type 'opera'. I am not sure how to find out what happens when I type 'opera' at the console (as far as what exactly it is running), but if you could enlighten me, that would be great!

[babbing]

well, when you say 'opera' on the command line, it looks in a given set of directories, called your path for the opera binary. By putting /usr/lib/opera in there, you are giving the exact location for the binary you want to use. Try just using 'opera' for the Kmenu, that should help :P

[vwgtiturbo]

Oh okay... I thought it was a little more complicated than that. I understood the whole path thing, I just wasn't sure what happened when you typed 'opera'. I didn't realize that it was simply calling the binary. Thanks.

[babbing]

8)

[trommaster]

type 'which opera' and it will tell you all the places its looking for it to run it.

eg: $which mozilla
/usr/bin/mozilla

[vwgtiturbo]

thanks, for some reason, I was thinking 'where'... no wonder it didn't do anything ;D

[trommaster]

heh