Starting DF from within Dwarf Therapist

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Sorry, no screenies, but I was just wondering...

I'm a newbie to Dwarf Fortress, but I don't really see why people get 
frustrated with it/give up learning to play it. Of course I'm not vain enough 
to try ASCII when I can get somewhat functional pixels but anyway...

Dwarf Therapist is, as all people say, something that you need to run alongside 
your game - but I don't want two icons on my desktop to run, essentially, one 
program! Would it be possible to make it so that we could start DF from within 
Dwarf Therapist? On behalf of many people, I'm guessing, I am making this 
request, as personally I don't really mind having an extra couple of things 
here and there if it makes life easier in the long run.

Sorry for my babbling,

Thanks

Original issue reported on code.google.com by biltongv...@gmail.com on 13 Oct 2011 at 3:15

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I would argue as far as saying this is a necessary feature for Linux, given the 
ptrace limitations added by the more recent distribution prohibits reading of 
memory of non-child processes.  If DwarfTherapist can start the dwarf fortress 
process directly it would mean the need to disable the ptrace limitation is 
removed (no system-wide security) and/or stop the need to run this program as 
root (which opens up another security violation vector).

Original comment by y...@metatoaster.com on 6 Jan 2012 at 3:52