'Failed to execute child process'

[bezoris]

Relative noob. Running Arch/Manjaro Openbox 2019. I was going to install i3, which I've used in the past and really enjoy, but decided to give awesome a go (some of the i3 scripts interfered with the ob install). And I'm digging it, but...

The run command repeatedly 'fails to execute child process.' To run, for instance, Vivaldi. Perhaps I've misunderstood, but this seems to be related to bash profiling (I'm running zsh over on openbox). I'm unsure how to go about altering .bash_profile (or .profile) to get around this.

Or it's entirely possible that I'm completely misunderstanding the issue. Any thoughts?

[bezoris]

$PATH is: /home/bez/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/bez/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/bez/.gem/ruby/2.6.0/bin

(on my trusty x220 workhorse)

[actionless]

are you pressing mod+r or mox+x to run the prompt?

[psychon]

Could you run something like zsh -c 'echo $PATH > /tmp/t' via the run prompt to figure out which $PATH is actually used here? Also, how do you start awesome? (or bash instead of zsh, I'm not quite sure what you describe there in your question)