-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Try Alt+F2 and enter the name of some environment variable that holds a directory location. For example this is just a snippet of my ~/.bashrc: export QT_BOOK=/download/com/prentice-hall/c++gui-with-qt/examples export OPT=$HOME/opt export ORG=$OPT/org export COM=$OPT/com export EDU=$OPT/edu export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 export KDEDIR=/opt/kde3 export KDEVELOP_HOME=$ORG/kdevelop export KDEDIRS=$KDEVELOP_HOME:$KDEDIRS export BERKELEY_DB_HOME=$COM/sleepycat/db-4.2.52 export OPENLDAP_HOME=$ORG/openldap/openldap-2.2.5 export XEMACS_HOME=$ORG/xemacs export EMACS_HOME=$ORG/gnu/emacs export JAVA_HOME=$COM/sun/j2sdk1.5.0 #export JAVA_HOME=$COM/sun/j2sdk1.4.2_03/j2sdk1.4.2 export APACHE_HOME=$ORG/apache export DOXYGEN_HOME=$ORG/doxygen export BCPP_HOME=$COM/his export XERCESCROOT=$APACHE_HOME/xml-xerces/c Suppose I want to execute /home/hattons/opt/org/xemacs/bin/gnuclient, but it's not in my path. I can enter $XEMACS_HOME/bin/gnuclient and it will launch the program. Or if I want to go to the directory, I just put the directory name in, and it will open Konqueror in that directory. The same thing works in the location field of Konqueror. STH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAOqX3H2SF0i7rrGwRAgCyAKCk94vnqW1VWKknskLlnjq+ge0sLwCfeWod 9E8wXO+1UePT/BqhUP/Q1Kw= =I6wT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----