Beryl and Frostwire togethet???

[starkey]

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????

[scorp123]

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

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?

[scorp123]

[ 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:

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ls -al /usr/bin/frostwire

If you get an output similar to this then it means the file exists:

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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 103 2006-12-23 23:03 /usr/bin/frostwire

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:

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bash /usr/lib/frostwire/runFrostwire.sh

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.

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gksudo gedit /usr/bin/frostwire

The GNOME editor should be open.
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

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

[starkey]

That's is great. now frostwire works, thank you so much

[scorp123]

That's is great. now frostwire works, thank you so much

You're welcome

[hairy_Palms]

i found that upgrading to java6 also fixed the problem with java apps and beryl

[scorp123]

i found that upgrading to java6 also fixed the problem with java apps and beryl

How did you upgrade? Via synaptic or the apt-get commands? Or did you manually download and install the package?

[scorp123]

Thank you scorp123 i`ve been looking for a fix for this for a while. I even registered just to say thank you.

Hey wow, thank you

[hairy_Palms]

i upgraded using the official installer in /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun it replaces the jre folder