for example, i'll run freeciv or mozilla from the KDE app menu, I get the hourglass and the app appears in the system tray with the hourglass as though it's trying to load, then the process just goes away. Is there a log file somewhere I can look at to see what's going wrong? Thanks.
check /var/log/messages also try running the command from a shell, you can usually use -v switch to get more output. At the very least try program --help to look for debug options. Break away from the gui and control the apps from cli.
thanks, heres what messages shows when trying to run FreeCiv, any idea what this might indicate?
Jan 30 23:42:55 fedora su(pam_unix)[4549]: session opened for user nobody by (ui d=0)
Jan 30 23:42:55 fedora su(pam_unix)[4549]: session closed for user nobody
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