weatherbug in Ububtu 8.4

Auto-starting the application.

Just go to System-> Preferences-> Sessions. I am not sure if a Weatherbug entry is automatically created. If one is you just need the check the tick-box and it will auto-start when you boot.

If there is no Weatherbug entry. Create one by hitting the add button and fill in this information. For the name box: Weatherbug For command box (case sensitive) weatherbug. Save and it will now auto-start

Hope this helps

Thanks Wyatt,
That is just it. When I add, I need to fill in the path.
I do not know what path and name of the executing file weatherbug. I
have a lot of weatherbug files but which one do I choose? What is the
extension of an execution program in Linux. If I know, it will be easy
to find.

Bjorn

ons 2008-10-29 klockan 01:33 +0000 skrev Wyatt Smith:
> Your question #49331 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/49331
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Wyatt Smith proposed the following answer:
> Auto-starting the application.
>
> Just go to System-> Preferences-> Sessions. I am not sure if a
> Weatherbug entry is automatically created. If one is you just need the
> check the tick-box and it will auto-start when you boot.
>
> If there is no Weatherbug entry. Create one by hitting the add button
> and fill in this information. For the name box: Weatherbug For command
> box (case sensitive) weatherbug. Save and it will now auto-start
>
> Hope this helps
>

Please just put the command weatherbug in the Command Box. You do not need a path.

Windows uses the file extension to tell it which application to run to process the file (Word to handle .DOC files, etc.). UNIX/Linux doesn't use file extensions to figure out how the program should be run. Bottom line is that file extensions are -- for the most part -- optional.

If you feel you must use a path, I suggest you check these directories for weatherbug

/usr/bin
/usr/share/applications

Thanks

Thanks Wyatt,
I did thai again. I did what you suggested.
Sys/settings/sessions I edited the weatherbug accordingly and installed
the string /usr/share/waetherbug.desktop but it still do not start the
program. Maybe it is a bug in weatherbug?

Thanks // Bjorn

ons 2008-10-29 klockan 04:33 +0000 skrev Wyatt Smith:
> Your question #49331 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/49331
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Wyatt Smith proposed the following answer:
> Please just put the command weatherbug in the Command Box. You do not
> need a path.
>
> Windows uses the file extension to tell it which application to run to
> process the file (Word to handle .DOC files, etc.). UNIX/Linux doesn't
> use file extensions to figure out how the program should be run. Bottom
> line is that file extensions are -- for the most part -- optional.
>
> If you feel you must use a path, I suggest you check these directories
> for weatherbug
>
> /usr/bin
> /usr/share/applications
>
> Thanks
>

I was intrigued that using weatherbug simple wouldn´t work. So I installed it and found that it had some strange java dependencies.

I have it running in sessions with the following command. Please copy and paste long command from this post, directly into you command box. Then logout and log back in.

java -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni -Xms8M -Xmx32M -jar /usr/share/java/weatherbug.jar default

Please tell..... if this works.

Thanks a lot Wyatt,
It works now, I learn something new every day...

Cheers

tor 2008-10-30 klockan 04:03 +0000 skrev Wyatt Smith:
> Your question #49331 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/49331
>
> Wyatt Smith proposed the following answer:
> I retry and you don´t need all the java flags
>
> /usr/share/java/weatherbug.jar
>
> will also work.
>

Great, iT WORKS
Thanks for your help
Cheers