On Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:51:04 +0000 dep <[email protected]> said:

i might imagine your distor is enforcing some security thing that require
something special - like some special capabilities added to e. i can't say what
those are.

look at ~/.e-log.log for possible info maybe?

> I compiled everything under a different desktop. Started E. the startup 
> sound was fine and it all looked fine. But many non-E applications throw an 
> error box saying that it could not fork a child process.
> 
> Nothing internet-related -- ProtonVPN, any browser -- works. LibreOffice 
> starts up, but GIMP doesn't.
> 
> Also, is there a command that will rescan to find applications to populate 
> the menu? It seems to have missed a few, such as ProtonMail.
> 
> The second question is a matter of convenience, while the former is 
> seemingly serious.
> 
> ~/.xsession-errors is unhelpful. It offers nothing that I can attribute to 
> E.
> 
> Fwiw, I'm running a Nvidia card, 1030, and Wayland is not disabled though 
> I'm not using it.
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