<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi, Norman! So... first things first... I tried on my laptop with Ubuntu Edgy and it runs fine. Both with Java 1.5.0_08 and 1.6.0... Now let's look at what's going on here. First... the "L&F" messages are simple information messages telling you that AstroStack3LE has found 3 possible look and feels that you should be able to chose from : Metal, CDE/Motif (yeah, we've stuck with that horror for a long time), and GTK+. All normal. No worries here. The first one is telling you that it can't find "default.apf". I get the same error message when I copy the .jar file to a directory that doesn't contain the rest of the application files. And it doesn't prevent anything from working. So, although I don't really know the application, I suspect that this message isn't really an error but more of an information, and that it will be created in time when you save preferences. Try it without the "-Xmx256m" parameter (it starts fine like this for me). I would check a few things... 1) Did you download and unzip this as your normal user, or as root? 2) Are you running it as root or as your normal user? (I did download, unzip and run as my normal user). I've tried it on a machine in 1024x768 where I don't get the "java.awt.Dimension" notification... and also on a machine with 1280x1024 resolution, on which I do... no problems there. So I'm really at a loss here. Do you have an exotic graphics configuration (DISPLAY not set to :0.0, or maybe are you running aiglx or fglrx)? Have you asked AstroStack support as to what may be causing their application to not run on your machine? Because for me it runs fine. Gilles. norman wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1167587583.4890.63.camel@localhost" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Gilles < snip > </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Once you have installed the packages, remember to run the proper command to enable them : </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I carried out your instructions and things happened as you said they would. I then tried to run Astrostack from the terminal, the application started and I got the following:- norman@gruber:~$ java -Xmx256m -jar AstroStack3le.jar java.io.FileNotFoundException: default.apf (No such file or directory) -PI:true- 1.5.0_08 Screen size :java.awt.Dimension[width=1280,height=1024] Screen resolution :95 L&F: javax.swing.UIManager$LookAndFeelInfo[Metal javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel] L&F: javax.swing.UIManager$LookAndFeelInfo[CDE/Motif com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel] L&F: javax.swing.UIManager$LookAndFeelInfo[GTK+ com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel] norman@gruber:~$ I used this application some time ago and, from what I can remember, when files are loaded an image should appear in the top left hand panel. This does not happen. Norman </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">As a test example, download AppGate's MindTerm (SSH terminal written 100% in Java and using a nice, but not too complex set of features) : wget <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.appgate.com/products/80_MindTerm/110_MindTerm_Download/mindterm_3.0.1-bin.zip">http://www.appgate.com/products/80_MindTerm/110_MindTerm_Download/mindterm_3.0.1-bin.zip</a> unzip mindterm_3.0.1-bin.zip cd mindterm_3.0.1-bin java -jar mindterm.jar If, after, maybe, a couple of warning diagnostic lines in your terminal window, and a few popups to click, you get a nice window saying "appGATE MindTerm" then your Java environment is properly set and you should have no more problems. Note: As a Sun person, I should write Java(TM) everywhere... but what the heck. :) The aim is to help you get the stuff running nicely. Tell us how it goes! Gilles. norman wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">< snip > </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">You are very fortunate in that you know what you are doing. I have no real idea on how to tweak anything thus, my instinct is to go for the easiest for me to do. I know how to type instructions into a terminal and that's as far as my experience goes. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Do you need the latest java ? If not, there are packages from the multiverse repository you can install: - sun-java5-bin <-- this will pull in the runtime as a dependency </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">The application I want to run specifies J2SE JRE. I have tried sun-java5.bin but the application does not fully run. For example the various windows appear and seem to work except that images needed do not show. Thanks for your suggestions. 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