GNOME Launcher - Startin directory?

[James Pifer]

Is there any way to specify some type of "Start in" directory when using
a gnome launcher? Here's the problem:

I'm trying to setup a launcher for ldapbrowser since I use it quite a
bit. For those unfamiliar with ldapbrowser there's normally a script
file you run called Lbe.sh that's located in the ldapbrowser directory,
wherever you put it. Ldapbrowser stores it's configuration files in this
directory so if you run it using the script all is fine.

I tried running the script from a launcher and it just bombs, even if I
tell it to run it in a terminal. So I just decided to run what the
script does in the launcher:
java
-Xbootclasspath/p:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/ldap.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/jndi.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/providerutil.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/ldapbp.jar -jar /home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lbe.jar

ldapbrowser runs but doesn't run from the ldapbrowser directory so it
doesn't find any of my config files. In my previous Windows life I would
specify a "Start in" directory. How do I accomplish the same thing here?

As far as I can tell, ldapbrowser does not have a parameter for
specifying a "home" directory. Looks like I can specify a single cfg
file, but that's not exactly what I want.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
James

[jim lawrence]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:07:06 -0500, James Pifer  wrote:
> Is there any way to specify some type of "Start in" directory when using
> a gnome launcher? Here's the problem:
>
> I'm trying to setup a launcher for ldapbrowser since I use it quite a
> bit. For those unfamiliar with ldapbrowser there's normally a script
> file you run called Lbe.sh that's located in the ldapbrowser directory,
> wherever you put it. Ldapbrowser stores it's configuration files in this
> directory so if you run it using the script all is fine.
>
> I tried running the script from a launcher and it just bombs, even if I
> tell it to run it in a terminal. So I just decided to run what the
> script does in the launcher:
> java
> -Xbootclasspath/p:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/ldap.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/jndi.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/providerutil.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/ldapbp.jar -jar /home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lbe.jar
>
> ldapbrowser runs but doesn't run from the ldapbrowser directory so it
> doesn't find any of my config files. In my previous Windows life I would
> specify a "Start in" directory. How do I accomplish the same thing here?

did you try   preference--->more preferences--->sessions 
click the 3rd tab  and add a new command if "ldabrowser" is the
command,  the app will get launched upon login.  Is this what you were
asking?

[James Pifer]

> did you try   preference--->more preferences--->sessions 
> click the 3rd tab  and add a new command if "ldabrowser" is the
> command,  the app will get launched upon login.  Is this what you were
> asking?

No, not on startup. It's being run from a Launcher icon. I need to
specify a "start in" directory so when the app starts the environment
starts in that directory. That way the application finds the
configuration files it's looking for. They reside in the same directory
the application launches from, but in this case, I'm running java and
specifying the jar file for the application. The start in directory
really needs to be where the jar file resides.

Thanks,
James

[Alexander Apprich]

James,

James Pifer wrote:
> Is there any way to specify some type of "Start in" directory when using
> a gnome launcher? Here's the problem:
>
> I'm trying to setup a launcher for ldapbrowser since I use it quite a
> bit. For those unfamiliar with ldapbrowser there's normally a script
> file you run called Lbe.sh that's located in the ldapbrowser directory,
> wherever you put it. Ldapbrowser stores it's configuration files in this
> directory so if you run it using the script all is fine.
>
> I tried running the script from a launcher and it just bombs, even if I
> tell it to run it in a terminal. So I just decided to run what the
> script does in the launcher:
> java
> -Xbootclasspath/p:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/ldap.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/jndi.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/providerutil.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/ldapbp.jar -jar /home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lbe.jar
>
> ldapbrowser runs but doesn't run from the ldapbrowser directory so it
> doesn't find any of my config files. In my previous Windows life I would
> specify a "Start in" directory. How do I accomplish the same thing here?
>
> As far as I can tell, ldapbrowser does not have a parameter for
> specifying a "home" directory. Looks like I can specify a single cfg
> file, but that's not exactly what I want.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.

why don't you just create a simple wrapper like this??

#!/bin/sh

cd /your/special/directory
java 
-Xbootclasspath/p:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/ldap.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/jndi.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/providerutil.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/ldapbp.jar 
-jar /home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lbe.jar
> Thanks,
> James

Alex

[James Pifer]

> >
>
> why don't you just create a simple wrapper like this??
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> cd /your/special/directory
> java 
> -Xbootclasspath/p:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/ldap.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/jndi.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/providerutil.jar:/home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lib/ldapbp.jar 
> -jar /home/myuser/ldapbrowser/lbe.jar

Thanks. I just modified the wrapper ldapbrowser already comes with to
have it change directories first. Works great now.

Thanks,
James