Re: I don't play games often, but...

[Reinhard Mueller <reinhard mueller bytewise at>]

Paul E Johnson wrote:

> My 9 year old daughter said "none of your games work anymore". 
> Checking, I found games from the foot menu don't work on any RedHat
> systems anymore.  I noticed in gnome-ximian that the games are moved
> into /usr/games, which is not in the path, and so the foot menu items
> don't point at the right place.
>
> Can somebody give me a heads up on why games would be moved off the path
> like that and what should be done about?  I realize I can either change
> the path or fix all those commands, but it just seems surprising to me
> that I've not heard more whining about it recently in here, so I figure
> I've missed something.

Paul,

I had this issue, too, and I found out that it's a Ximian issue (not a 
Gnome one). I posted a bug to Ximian's bugzilla, and got it answered 
within a minute (long live Ximian!). They think that /usr/games (or, for 
example for SuSE, /opt/gnome/games) should be in the search path. If you 
use gdm, you have to add it in gdm.conf; a bug report for gdm is already 
filed.

Funny thing btw - in my case it was not my daughter who found out, it 
was my wife :-)

Thanks,
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Reinhard Mueller
GNU Enterprise project
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