Re: Problems with Electric on Linux

[Steven Rubin]

At 09:01 AM 1/5/2009, you wrote:
> Hello,
>    I'm having some problems getting Electric to work properly under 
> Linux. I have a dual boot MAC OSX 10.4/Ubuntu 8.04 machine. 
> Electric works fine with the MAC OS. Under Linux, I have tried 
> running Electric from the jar file on the MAC OS partition (which 
> has journalling disabled) and from a copy on the Linux partition.
>
>    I notice that with the MAC a file called .DS_Store is written 
> after every session, but not with Linux. Instead I find a series of 
> files with names like
>
> /home/graham/.java/.userPrefs/com/sun/electric/technology/technologies/prefs.xml
>
>    Can someone explain where user preferences (like layer colours 
> and transparencies) are kept? I would prefer a file kept in the 
> working directory rather than one in the user's .java directory.

The .DS_Store files are artifacts of the Macintosh file system.  They 
can be ignored in Linux.

The XML files are your user preferences.  You cannot choose their 
location...it is a part of the Java "runtime".  To see where they 
will appear on different operating systems, read:

http://www.staticfreesoft.com/jmanual/mchap06-03.html

If you wish to move preferences between operating systems, use the 
export/import functions (under the File menu).

   -Steven Rubin