On Nov 16, 2004, at 1:53 PM, Emmanuel Yves wrote:
Hi Franck,
Thank you very much for your answer.
You're right : I finally have let rev files in my home directory : I 'm not keen on changing writable rights on /opt directory ...
In order to launch Revolution_Dreamcard executable, I also have created an executable file launcher (dream) in the same location (/home/emmanuel) :
Created with the Vi editor, it launches the command /opt/Revolution_Dreamcard-2.5/revolution_dreamcard.sh
and, of course, I have made a chmod +x command on this file.
Otherwise, I'd like to know if it's possible to define in Dreamcard
the /home/emmanuel directory as rev files directory by default, or,
eventually, see to it that by clicking on (or, by typing in a terminal)
*.rev files it launches automatically the revolution_dreamcard player. I
hope you'll understand what I want to say, my english language isn't
really perfect :-(
I don't know about setting a default save directory (maybe someone else can pitch in here?), but as far as opening .rev files when double-clicked and from the terminal:
From the terminal, you will need to specify the name of the file as a command line argument to the Dreamcard program. So change your "dream" shell script to run this instead:
/opt/Revolution_Dreamcard-2.5/revolution_dreamcard.sh $1
This will have no effect when you just run the "dream" script w/o command line arguments, but if you specify the name of a stack, it will hand that off to Dreamcard, requesting that it be opened. So now you can type something like this:
dream myStack.rev
to open the stack.
For double-clicking, that depends on what desktop environment you use (KDE, GNOME, etc.). You should probably look it up in the docs from that environment (they all seem to keep track of this differently).
In all cases, thank you very much for your help
Have a good afternoon ;-)
Cordially
Emmanuel Yves
Le mardi 16 novembre 2004 � 09:25 -0500, Frank D. Engel, Jr. a �crit :On Nov 16, 2004, at 4:26 AM, Emmanuel Yves wrote:
Hi,
I'm French and new user of Dreamcard that I have discovered and bought
the past week.
I have installed it on Linux Mandrake 10.1 with the rpm built and it works perfectly.
Yet, I have a small problem :
Since Dreamcard is installed is installed in the /opt directory, and when I launch it as a single user (not root), I can't create *.rev files under /opt/Revolution_dreamcard but only in my home directory (/home/emmanuel etc...).
Yes, and this is generally a good thing. In a multiuser system, allowing users to write into these common directories is asking for trouble. Since UNIX (and therefore Linux) is designed to easily support multiple users, allowing users to write into this directory is a bad idea.
So, have I to modify the writable rights of this directory so that rev
files may be written in this directory ?
If you *really* want to do this, and there won't be a problem with
other users of the system (or there are no other users of the system),
you can do this from the terminal (note you must execute these commands
as root):
This allows all users of the system to write to the directory and all of its subdirectories:
chmod -R ugo+w /opt/Revolution_dreamcard
Alternately, this changes the owner of the directory and its contents
to <username>, and ensures that the owner of the directory can write to
it:
chown -R <username> /opt/Revolution_dreamcard chmod u+w /opt/Revolution_dreamcard
Another question :
In order to launch Dreamcard, I have to be placed into
/opt/Revolution_dreamcard, and I don't know which command would allow
me to launch it from, for instance, /home/emmanuel in a terminal ?
Have I to create a link towards the executable Revolution_dreamcard.sh
?
No, you just need to specify the full path to the binary. I don't have
Rev for Linux, so fill in the rest of the name here, but if (for
example) the binary is stored in /opt/Revolution_dreamcard, and is
named Revolution_dreamcard, then start the program with the command:
/opt/Revolution_dreamcard/Revolution_dreamcard
Alternately, add the directory containing the binary file to your path.
This depends on the shell you are using; the default under Mandrake
should be bash (which is my own preference as well); do this:
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/Revolution_dreamcard
You will need to do that each time you open a terminal window unless
you add the line to .profile or .bash_profile in your home directory
(note the dot at the start of the filename -- that will cause the files
to be hidden in most cases.)
Finally, I think Dreamcard (and Revolution) are very good products, but French users lack of a good documentation in their language. I hope there will be one.
Can't help here -- I type in several languages (Transcript, Pascal, Ada, BASIC, Java...), but I only speak one ;-)
Thank you very much beforehand
Cordially
M. Emmanuel YVES
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