Beryl and Frostwire togethet???
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Beryl and Frostwire togethet???
Hi, I installed Beryl, but when I tried to install frostwire, it doesn't work, it only shows a blank screen, I have to turn beryl off, to use frostwire; is there any way to use both in the same time????
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Re: Beryl and Frostwire togethet???
Hmmmm ... same problem here (LinuxMint 2.0 "Barbara"). Looks like the Java libraries FrostWire was written with don't like Beryl ... Workaround: Don't use Beryl or use a different Gnutella-client (e.g. gtk-gnutella). I agree, this sort of sucks. Maybe there is a better solution?starkey wrote:Hi, I installed Beryl, but when I tried to install frostwire, it doesn't work, it only shows a blank screen, I have to turn beryl off, to use frostwire
[ EDIT: previous posting deleted ... the solution presented there did not work reliably! ]
OK, here is the real solution:
Can you please check if this file exists: /usr/bin/frostwire ... ? For example you could open a terminal and type this command:
If you get an output similar to this then it means the file exists: If it does not exist: OK, no problem, we will create it!
This file is a very very ugly shell script that doesn't do certain things right. On my system the file looked like this inside: That's really bad shell scripting right there, sorry to say so!
So we need to correct this. Please become root and open an editor, e.g. The GNOME editor should be open.
Now please delete the content there (yes, really!) and replace it with this: Save and close this file.
Now when you call frostwire it should work as expected, regardless if you are in Beryl or not.
Regards,
Scorp123
OK, here is the real solution:
Can you please check if this file exists: /usr/bin/frostwire ... ? For example you could open a terminal and type this command:
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ls -al /usr/bin/frostwire
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 103 2006-12-23 23:03 /usr/bin/frostwire
This file is a very very ugly shell script that doesn't do certain things right. On my system the file looked like this inside:
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bash /usr/lib/frostwire/runFrostwire.sh
So we need to correct this. Please become root and open an editor, e.g.
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gksudo gedit /usr/bin/frostwire
Now please delete the content there (yes, really!) and replace it with this:
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#! /bin/bash
export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit
export HOSTNAME=localhost
/usr/lib/frostwire/runFrostwire.sh
Now when you call frostwire it should work as expected, regardless if you are in Beryl or not.
Regards,
Scorp123
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