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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Bazoukas on 6 October 2002, 10:16

Title: Allright. Stupid Question for installed apps.
Post by: Bazoukas on 6 October 2002, 10:16

I installed Seti@home (the rpm). Install went great.  Here is the problem though. There is no icon to be found to start the program.  When I type in shell "setiathome" the program starts but it runs on the backround. I cant see shit of whats going on.  And when the program 1st starts it should had ask me to create a user account. But nothing.

  How can I bring the GUI of a program on my screen when that happens?
  I also had the same problem with PengAOL. I wanted to check it out, but same exact problem as above.

Title: Allright. Stupid Question for installed apps.
Post by: voidmain on 6 October 2002, 10:57

I haven't run Seti for quite some time, but when I did, the main engine was non-graphical. That is, it runs in the background. There was a separate X app that you ran to see the graphical progress (looked similar to the Windows version). The directions on the web site were very short and easy to follow when I ran it. Did you read the docs?

Title: Allright. Stupid Question for installed apps.
Post by: Bazoukas on 6 October 2002, 11:55

ooooooooooops.  Some resedue from windows in me still i see.

  Detach my self from GUI only world, I must .

Title: Allright. Stupid Question for installed apps.
Post by: Master of Reality on 6 October 2002, 23:19

there is an RPM????
i isntalled from the tarball. i just run seti with the verbose option (/usr/local/setiathome/setiathome -verbose

there is an x version of seti with the tarball. it is called xsetiathome

Title: Allright. Stupid Question for installed apps.
Post by: voidmain on 7 October 2002, 00:08

You can check if it's included in your RPM by doing an "rpm -qil setiathome" (or whatever the name of the RPM is that is installed).

Title: Allright. Stupid Question for installed apps.
Post by: Master of Reality on 7 October 2002, 03:33

you can also run the windows version of setiathome in WINE. I did that successfully.

Title: Allright. Stupid Question for installed apps.
Post by: voidmain on 7 October 2002, 04:02

quote:

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Originally posted by The Master of Reality / Bob:
you can also run the windows version of setiathome in WINE. I did that successfully.

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ick...

Title: Allright. Stupid Question for installed apps.
Post by: Master of Reality on 7 October 2002, 05:16

lol... i didnt let it run very long. I was just foolin around to see what windows programs WINE would run.

Title: Allright. Stupid Question for installed apps.
Post by: heljy on 10 October 2002, 22:12

you can run setiathome with the -graphics flag and then run xsetiathome

example:

%./setiathome -graphics &
%xsetiathome

Something like that, I have not tried it, but I would assume that it will work. Read the README file.

Good luck