On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:08 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28.0
I have an application that I need for drawing syntax trees in
linguistics. It is a java application and the command is:
java -Xmx256m -Xms64m -jar TreeForm.jar
The TreeForm.jar archive resides in /home/jjj/Software. If I use the
command line and change directory to /home/jjj/Software, then execute
the command, the program launches and all of the buttons on its menu
appear. If I launch it from someplace else and use the command:
java -Xmx256m -Xms64m -jar /home/jjj/Software/TreeForm.jar
The buttons do not appear.
The TreeForm folder contains a subfolder containing images of the
buttons. For some reason the application finds the folder when it is
launched from the command line inside the /home/jjj/Software/TreeForm
folder, but not if it is called from outside that folder.
This is very strange, but it doesn't matter to me as long as I get the
buttons.
I opened Alacarte to create a launch item. It launches, but without the
buttons. The command I started with was:
java -Xmx256m -Xms64m -jar /home/jjj/Software/TreeForm.jar
In an attempt to fix the problem, I changed the command to:
cd /home/jjj/Software | java -Xmx256m -Xms64m -jar TreeForm.jar
Read more about the pipe (|) in Linux/Unix here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_(Unix)
Pipes are not what you want to use.
You should write a shell script for launch. Lets say file Treeform.sh
The content would be :
#!/bin/bash
APP_HOME=/home/jjj/Software/
cd $APP_HOME
java -Xmx256m -Xms64m -jar TreeForm.jar
#-- END --
This way your application would have working directory of what you set and it would find images subdir in it.
Pipes are not what you want to use.
You should write a shell script for launch. Lets say file Treeform.sh
The content would be :
#!/bin/bash
APP_HOME=/home/jjj/Software/
cd $APP_HOME
java -Xmx256m -Xms64m -jar TreeForm.jar
#-- END --
This way your application would have working directory of what you set and it would find images subdir in it.
--
-=Ravi=-
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