Linux - field only runs when in home directory

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Linux - field only runs when in home directory #47

Open rdthree opened 10 years ago

rdthree commented 10 years ago

The bash script would not work unless the "Field" directory was located like this:

/home/user/Field

The wiki doesn't say to do this, so maybe we could include that to help other users. I wasn't able to modify the script to allow for a different location without breaking it.

Thanks for the awesome application and for letting us play along!

BTW - I'm using Arch Linux x86_64 and Field works great.

marcdownie commented 10 years ago

The Field launch scripts for linux go through a certain amount of gymnastics to let Field be located anywhere (and they regularly work, Field is never located at /home/user/Field on my machines for example). Any idea what's going wrong on Arch x86_64? Not least of all because I'm about about to move to Arch myself.

fatmilktv commented 10 years ago

I think it's probably ok on this architecture to run in ~/fieldwork/Field/Contents as expected. Arch recommends no particular window manager so that can cause some predictability issues for dwm, awesome, etc. Haven't yet tested with xmonad, which is also popular. Related, I did have to add an explicit reference for XULRunner at one point.