FahMon (multi-platform app to monitor various F@h clients)

[tmoble]

I Know not of this SVN of which you speak. I recall that I went to your site and DL'd the src available. I'll see what I can do with the SVN thing. Looks like it's a code repository similar to sourceforge? Try not to laugh out loud, I really have very little experience with this stuff. DL and compiling Wine the other day was my first try at anything non-trivial and it was a major PITA.

[tmoble]

OK, so now I know of this SVN of which you speak. couple gotcha's and quirks, but I got the latest version down and compiled. runs good. Question, I compiled it in a slightly different directory than the first attempt with 2.3.2b. it's under the same parent directory. when I brought it up it apparently found some data file because it was pre-loaded with the two F@H instances from yesterday. One of them is the one it crashed with when attempting to add. I renamed the old executable in /usr/local/bin before running the make install as root so there's now a new fahmon executable there. Where did it it pick up the config data? should I delete the previous fahmon directory?

[HkQwerty]

The next official release will be built to work with Vista's security model.

That's great! When is it expected to be released?

[shatteredsilicon]

Just wanted to say thanks for fixing the crash caused by monitoring GPU progress under Linux. I just built the svn code, and it works great now.

[HkQwerty]

Why can't I run FahMon?

I'm using the GPU Client and I sucessfully installed the FahMon (Windows Installer) recently.

But when I click the shortcut in the start menu, it keeps saying that "Could not create directory <./config/>".
After I press OK, it then says "Directory './config/' couldn't be created (error 5: access denied)

OS: Vista 64bit
Client: GPU systray install 6.20rc1

Where did you install FahMon? It sounds like Vista security doesn't want you putting data in that location. If you used "Program Files" like many of us have done for years, you have to get used to the new security rules and put the program somewhere else, or install in WinXP 32-bit compatibility mode, or disable Vista's added security.

Thanks for your reply.

Now I get rid of the problem by uninstalling it and then installing it in "C:\FahMon" instead of the default directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\FahMon"

I hope the new official release, which works with Vista's security, come up soon.

[uncle_fungus]

That's great! When is it expected to be released?

Around about the end of the month, -ish.

[gsrcrxsi]

so is there a how-to for the SVN? the fahmon page doesnt have any links like for the other linux release.

[Shadowtester]

Try this it tells you how to get the svn code then all you have to do is compile as normal.
http://trac.fahmon.net/wiki/CodeWhere

[gsrcrxsi]

sweet. got it installed now. my only issue now is that it doesnt create a shortcut in my applications menu. im sure in Ubuntu, it does this, but how do i get it there in Xubuntu? its quite annoying having to open the fahmon directory every time.

[uncle_fungus]

You should be able to add it manually to the xfce menu, but it should appear there automatically unless there's a problem with the .desktop file.

Look in /usr/share/applications (or /usr/local/share/applications if you didn't configure with --prefix=/usr) and see if there is a .desktop file for FahMon

[gsrcrxsi]

yep, there is a desktop file in usr/local/share/applications. but nothing in my menu.

[uncle_fungus]

symlink that to /usr/share/applications/

Or reconfigure it with --prefix=/usr (and recompile).

[gsrcrxsi]

so i would run

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

?

[uncle_fungus]

In a word, Yes.

[Gerby19]

Hi Andrew!

In the latest builds (I've compiled r323) you've changed the location for the configs under Windows. However, I think that the corresponding message ("Automatically imported old config") could be more confusing for the user than helpful. Usually a user wouldn't mind about those files. When this import (or better movement) happens, nothing really changes concerning the programme's behaviour. So the user starts to ask himself, "What is the consequence? What does this change for the use of this program?".

My suggestion: Don't show this message as a popup. I think mentioning this new feature in the changelog would be sufficient. People who need to copy/delete the config files for any reason or to send xyz files to Jmol would be informed by this entry. An alternative could be mentioning this change in the Messages window.

Greetings
Mark