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Thanks for your further help, lovdsl.

I found and opened the file /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu.

In it was a line that must contain the relevant information. I set it out in full:

[exec] (Limewire) {PATH=$PATH:/opt/jre1_0_5_0/bin limewire}

Just to be clear, the last word, "limewire", was separated from the word (or abbreviation) "bin" by a space.

I copied everything between the braces onto the line for the command in the icon tool editor and then saved, but that still didn't lead to LimeWire opening when I left clicked on the icon.

I'm wondering whether I should have copied more or less of the line in the menu file into the line for the command.

If you have thoughts on that, I'd welcome them.

Thanks again,

Leslie

PATH=$PATH:/opt/jre1_0_5_0/bin sets up the PATH variable to include /opt/jre1_0_5_0/bin so limewire can use java.
Then limewire is started.

The above tells me that you need to have java installed in order for this command to work. The limewire info file (!!!) should have told you this. The thing i'm most curious about is the version listed in the fluxbox menu (jre1_0_5_0)...this doesn't look right to me if you are expected to use jre 1.5.0. I'd look in /opt/jre* to see what the actual path to its bin directory is.

PATH=$PATH:/opt/jre1_0_5_0/bin limewire
In my experience this line should have been the path
you could try this
:/opt/jre1_0_5_0/bin limewire
.look and see if /opt/jre1-0-5-0/bin/limewire exists and exec limewire
then this
:/opt/jre1_0_5_0/bin/limewire.
very sorry thats all I have, without installing the program..

thanks mikshaw you must have posted while I was typeing
I thought the program was opening from the menu already

Thanks to mikshaw and again to lovdsl for their replies.

As to the java runtime environment, I do have that installed. The info page for limewire told me I had to have it and said I could use one of two versions of it (JRE, I mean). I chose the uci version, thinking I'd conserve RAM that way. The reference to "1_0_5-0" is a reference to the uci version of JRE.

As I mentioned earlier, I have no difficulty opening LimeWire if I do so by going from DSL to myDSL to LimeWire. (That persuades me, incidentally, that my version of JRE is sufficient to run Limewire.) However, I assumed the young man who's using the computer would prefer opening LimeWire via a desktop icon, which is what started me on this project.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to the computer as I type this, so can't follow any of your suggestions now. I'll do so as soon as I can.

However, I can say now that there's no file called /opt/jre1_0_5_0/bin/limewire.

Thanks again,

Leslie

my initial suggestion was made as clear as possible the last was a stab in the dark as you said nothing was working..sorry I could not be of any help...worked for me.

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