[Lazarus] Lazarus on Ubuntu 18.04.4 via VNC cannot find utilities

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 25 May 2020, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote:

> On Mon, 25 May 2020 07:36:55 +0200 (CEST), Michael Van Canneyt via
> lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 24 May 2020, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote:
>>
>>> Comment=Lazarus IDE 2.0.8
>>> Terminal=false
>>> Name=Lazarus 2.0.8
>>> Exec=/home/bosse/dev/lazarus/2.0.8/startlazarus
>>
>> Set this to
>> /bin/bash -l home/bosse/dev/lazarus/2.0.8/startlazarus --pcp=/home/bosse/.lazarus_2.0.8 %f
>>
>> and .profile will be read.
>>
>> I have a similar issue, and that is how I solved it.
>>
>>>
>>> So I wonder if maybe Lazarus has a similar setting?
>>
>> No, you must set the options on the desktop/menu entry that starts lazarus.
>>
>>> Or maybe VNC server does?
>>
>> You must run lazarus not by directly running the startlazarus, but by
>> invoking the shell with -l option. You can create a script for it.
>>
>> Michael.
>
> Something must have gone wrong here...
> I changed the desktop file but no Lazarus showed up so I tried to run
> the Exec command from a terminal instead:
>
> bosse at polaris-ubuntu:~$ /bin/bash -l
> /home/bosse/dev/lazarus/2.0.8/startlazarus
> --pcp=/home/bosse/.lazarus_2.0.8 %f

You must omit the %f on the command line.

What happens if you do

/bin/bash -l -c '/home/bosse/dev/lazarus/2.0.8/startlazarus --pcp=/home/bosse/.lazarus_2.0.8'

Michael.