Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:03:53 -0700

> starts my GNOME/Metacity as usual, while `startx xterm` (or
> `startx mozilla-firefox` for that matter) end up in dropping
> me back to the commandline and displaying
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm:  bad command line option "mozilla-firefox"

use:

startx `which xterm`
startx `which mozilla-firefox`

By default, no path is set up.

William Ballard