I have installed Netbeans through its installer in my KDE 4.5 (openSuSE 11.3). It appeared in main menu as NetBeans IDE 6.9. But I cannot start it through KRunner: neither typing netbeans, nor NetBeans IDE 6.9.

How to force KRunner to start Netbeans?

open the kmenu editor and find the entry for netbeans and determine what the actual executable used is

there are a number of reasons it may not work with krunner:
- path to executable isn't in the search path of krunner
- actual name of executable is different then what you expect
- it's a jar and must be executed "java -jar xxxxx.jar"

Commandline is /usr/local/netbeans-6.9/bin/netbeans. This is, of course out of KRunner search, bu I think KRunner should seek for application name, which is NetBeans IDE 6.9 and suggest it to me, when I type netb. Am I right?

seems to me this is a packaging issue in that the executable should be in either /usr/bin/ or /usr/local/bin or course maybe they do this so multiple versions can be installed

why did you use the netbeans installer instead of your distro's? then it might have worked as expected - wait, because openSuse only has 6.8

you'd have to ask one of the developers why krunner doesn't seek (you could file a bug report)

pavel wrote:Commandline is /usr/local/netbeans-6.9/bin/netbeans.

In a console, execute:

Code: Select all

echo $PATH

Does "/usr/local/netbeans-6.9/bin" appear in that list of directories?

Can you please also do

Code: Select all

find /usr/local/netbeans-6.9 -name \*.desktop

?