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Running WM3 on Ubuntu? #346

Open Nootilus opened 4 years ago

Nootilus commented 4 years ago

I'm an average user of Ubuntu 19, but I'm using WM3 on Win systems for quite a long time now. I'm very happy with this app and I really love it. Thu, I'm confused by the archive provided as being for Linux systems.

The instructions provided say I just have to «run writemonkey3/nw file», but I don't know what to do to run the app. Ubuntu considers the file nw as a binary file, but to me there's no obvious way to run it. Double-click on it does nothing, invoking it from a terminal returns that «nw has not been found» and propose me to install a totally unrelated app. I tried to chmod +x it, to bash it… nothing.

Therefore I ask for help here. How can I enjoy WM3 on Ubuntu?

Thanks for any help on that, and furthermore, big thanks for all the good work you made with it!

(addentum: I edited this message, I didn't figure how rude I was the first time. My apologies.)

oldmole commented 4 years ago

I'm in the same boat. Can anyone offer some suggestions on this, or at least confirm they have been able to run the Linux app? I'm no Unix wizard, but I'm running 64-bit Debian 10.3 with Gnome desktop, and would really like to get all parts of my setup up and running. Writemonkey3 for Windows has been no problem. TIA.

writemonkey commented 4 years ago

Have yo tried #315? I tested wm 3.2 on Ubuntu and it worked. Have no other linux installations to test it. i.

Nootilus commented 4 years ago

That's neat! May I ask you the steps you do to run WM on your Ubuntu? I'm sure that would help some. Thanks! (and once again, what an amazing work!)

NoHara42 commented 4 years ago

@Nootilus @oldmole I'm running wm3.2 on Ubuntu 20.04. What worked for me was opening terminal in the writemonkey3 folder, and executing ./nw

There seems to be some bugs using my distro though, there are a bunch of artifacts when I open the right click menu.

oldmole commented 4 years ago

Have yo tried #315? I tested wm 3.2 on Ubuntu and it worked. Have no other linux installations to test it. i. Installing libgconf-2-4 worked like a charm. I can't believe how much time I spent trying fixes involving directories and permissions. It really might be worth adding five of six words about this in that line about installation. I feel like if I had not mentioned I use Gnome, I would still be lost at sea. Anyway, all's well that ends well, thanks to all who pitched in with help, esp. the Monkey man himself.

writemonkey commented 4 years ago

I added links to these two issues into documentation under installation section. i.

Nootilus commented 4 years ago

@Nootilus @oldmole I'm running wm3.2 on Ubuntu 20.04. What worked for me was opening terminal in the writemonkey3 folder, and executing ./nw

I tried the same and… well that worked like a charm. I feel so dumb and happy at the same time :) Thanks to everyone. Now I just have to figure how to create a laucher.

quantumnight commented 3 years ago

Just a quick note here. The reason you need to use ./nw is that your system doesn't know about that file. The dot slash says that you want to run the file in your current location. Without that, your system says "What?" What you could do to get around this is make a link to that program or app and place it in your bin folder in your home directory. This assumes of course that you do have a bin folder in your home directory. If you don't, you will need to create it and then modify your bashrc file to tell your system to look there first to find executable files. I put many of my simple script files in that bin folder. So the bin folder is like this: /home/yourID/bin/. You can find out about links with "man ln ". You might create a link like this: 'cd bin' then 'ln -s /home/myID/writemonkey3/nw nw' That will create a link file called nw in your bin folder. Don't use the quotes.

r05s commented 3 years ago

Thanks @oldmole @writemonkey , installing libgconf-2-4 was what I needed too. Running Ubuntu Mate 20.04.

Have yo tried #315? I tested wm 3.2 on Ubuntu and it worked. Have no other linux installations to test it. i. Installing libgconf-2-4 worked like a charm. I can't believe how much time I spent trying fixes involving directories and permissions. It really might be worth adding five of six words about this in that line about installation. I feel like if I had not mentioned I use Gnome, I would still be lost at sea. Anyway, all's well that ends well, thanks to all who pitched in with help, esp. the Monkey man himself.