I figured out the problem. I did not have permission to write to the imwheel.pid file.
so I logged in as su, gave myself permission, and now it works like a charm.
Thank-you very much for all your help. I know that you must get annoyed at all these
little mistakes that us newbies make.
Thanks again
tim
Ken Wahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > That was one problem. I am very new at this and I did not know I had to make it an
>executeable. I am no longer getting the error message, but imwheel still doesn't
>start automantically.
> > any other suggestions anyone?
> >
>
> First: Are you sure it's not running?
>
> At a Konsole or Xterm type "top" this will show you all the current
> processes. Then type "u" and it will ask for a user name. Enter your
> user name and press return. If imwheel is started it will show up in the
> list. Press "q" to quit. This way you will know if it is not started or
> started and just not working properly.
>
> Second: Thanks to Alan we have a better way to autostart Imwheel.
>
> Go to your autostart folder and right click, choose New|Application.
> Change the name of the kdelnk from Program.kdelnk to imwheel.kdelnk and
> press OK. A new window will open with four tabs (General, Permissions,
> Execute, Application) and click on permissions tab. Here make sure the
> Exec box is checked for user and move on to the execute tab. In the
> execute tab write the path to imwheel (/usr/X11R6/bin/imwheel -k) without
> the parantheses. You can also click on the cog icon to change the icon
> you want to use but it is not necessary. Click on Application. Type
> "imwheel;Imwheel;" without the quotes in binary pattern. In comment you
> can put something like "starts Imwheel" or nothing. Under name put
> imwheel. You can ignore the two boxes at the bottom with the arrows.
> Once you have done all this you can hit OK and you are done. You have
> created a kdelnk (similar to windows shortcut) in your autostart folder
> which will start imwheel for you when you log in. Thanks Alan!
>
> Get rid of the script to start imwheel and just leave the new
> kdelnk. Then logoff and log back in and look at the output of the top
> command. We can go from there.
>
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