JSesh under Kubuntu

Posted March 2nd, 2008 by Ethelbert

Hello,

I experience some troubles in using JSesh under Kubuntu.
First, I can't open the hieroglyphic palette. Second, I can't copy (or cut) and paste directly the hieroglyphic text in OpenOffice Writer (I use 2.3 version of OpenOffice). Instead, OO Writer paste the MdC entry. That's quite easy for me to read, but it would be harder for the my fellows students for whom the documents I make are destined. And some philological markups (ERASE markups) don't appear on the hieroglyphic window; they are replaced by the mentions BEGINERASE and ENDERASE.

You said me you were using OO 2.3, I'm sure there's a way to solve this bug. I wonder if I have forgot to enable an option, or if JSesh's installation has ecountered some problem on Kubuntu (7.10 version, Gutsy Gibbon).
By the way, I have installed many timesOpenGlyph, but it doesn't work. If someone has an idea of why it doesn't work.
I just hope it's not an incompatibility with my Gibbon.

In the meantime, it works perfectly on Windows. What I seek is to have all my programs running on Kubuntu, in order to remove totally Windows from my PC.

Thanks by advance for your help.
Best regards,

Bertrand Gajeot
DUESien Lyon 2

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Apparently, the file with

On March 2nd, 2008 Serge Rosmorduc says:

Apparently, the file with the fonts is missing.

I suspect It's probably a problem with the installer. From time to time (on all systems), the installer seems to forget a file. I would suggest the following course of action:

  • Delete (or move away) the current JSesh installation (saving files you might have placed there)
  • Re-install JSesh (just in case, download it once more to be sure it's not caused by a partial download)

It should work. At least, it works on my installation of Kubuntu.

(Just in case, check that you are running a SUN version of Java. The other java interpreters are not very good at running graphical programs).

Serge Rosmorduc

About Openglyph Thanks for

On March 7th, 2008 Ethelbert says:

About Openglyph

Thanks for your help.
I'm sorry to say it didn't work... :-(
I have removed all the files for JSesh and OpenGlyph, downloaded the archive from Sourceforge and installed once more the softwares. JSesh works perfectly well, but I always have the same SQL error. What makes me wonder is that I have installed the softwares the same way there are on Windows. And on this platform, it works perfectly. Wonderful that something works better on Windows than on Linux... ;-)
I'm gonna try to install OpenGlyph once more, and I will give you the SQL error. Maybe it will help to identify the source of the problem.
By the way, I thank you for the "SUN version of Java". My glyphs appear quite beautiful now.

Ethelbert, DUESien Lyon 2

(Beware, technical

On March 10th, 2008 Serge Rosmorduc says:

(Beware, technical post)
Actually, your SQL problem is specific to Openglyph and has nothing to do with JSesh. I guess the reason is that when openglyph looks for its database,
the path to the database was chosen using java behaviour on windows, not on linux. The notions of "working directory" and so on are very platform dependant.

On the other hand, Openglyph does run fine on linux if you start it from the command line.

Best regards,

Serge Rosmorduc

(Beware, noob post

On March 10th, 2008 Ethelbert says:

(Beware, noob post ^^)
First, how/where can I modify the path to OpenGlyph's database ? If there's such a way, of course...
Second, how do you run OpenGlyph in command line ? I have installed OpenGlyph in home/mylogin/OpenGlyph. But with or without "sudo", I can't run it.
Here's some code I type to try to run OpenGlyph:


bgajeot@taurrandir:~/OpenGlyph/libs$ openglyph.jar
bash: openglyph.jar : commande introuvable
bgajeot@taurrandir:~/OpenGlyph/libs$ ./openglyph.jar
bash: ./openglyph.jar: Permission non accordée
bgajeot@taurrandir:~/OpenGlyph/libs$ sudo ./openglyph.jar
[sudo] password for bgajeot:
sudo: ./openglyph.jar: command not found

Thanks for your help.

Ethelbert, DUESien Lyon 2

(still somehow technical) To

On March 10th, 2008 Serge Rosmorduc says:

(still somehow technical)

To correct the path problem, you would need to change the code of OpenGlyph (or notify Openglyph's author about the problem, he will probably be happy to correct it).

On the other hand, to run openglyph, simply type:

bgajeot@taurrandir:~/OpenGlyph/libs$ java -jar openglyph.jar

Serge Rosmorduc

It works perfectly well in

On March 11th, 2008 Ethelbert says:

It works perfectly well in command line. Thanks a lot !

Ethelbert, DUESien Lyon 2

Hello ! Once more, I need

On May 10th, 2008 Ethelbert says:

Hello !

Once more, I need some help in order to run JSesh under Kubuntu. I have updated Kubuntu with the 8.04 version, and JSesh with its 2.4.16 version. I have Sun 6 JRE, but I can't display the Hieroglyhic window.
So I wonder if it's a conflict between Kubuntu and JSesh, or is there a Sun JRE component lacking ?
Thanks a lot for helping me.
Regards,

Ethelbert, DUESien Lyon 2

Normally, JSesh runs under

On May 10th, 2008 Serge Rosmorduc says:

Normally, JSesh runs under JDK 1.6.
What to do:

  • check your the version of java you run : type java -version in a terminal. It should be something like:

    java version "1.6...."
    Java(TM) SE Runtime ....
    Java Hotspot...

    (the problem being that you probably have more than one JVM installed).

  • If it's sun's JDK, try running JSesh from the command line :

    java -jar /home/rosmord/JSesh/libs/jsesh.jar

Now, if it doesn't work, java may print some technical error messages which you can send me.

P.S. Sometimes, the installation may fail (I suspect that for instance the download was only partial, as the current JSesh version is getting a bit large (14Mo)). A new download and install may be the solution.

Serge Rosmorduc

The command java -version

On May 31st, 2008 Ethelbert says:

The command java -version returns this message:
java version "1.6.0_06"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_06-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 10.0-b22, mixed mode, sharing)
So it's all OK for JRE.

So it seems that my previous download was partial. I've downloaded JSesh once more since your reply, and now JSesh runs perfectly well, if I launch it in command line.

Sorry to reply and thank you so late, but I had to take my exams, among which there was Middle Egyptian...^^

Ethelbert, DUESien Lyon 2