Setup Issues on Ubuntu Linux

[simoncn]

(15-12-2014 16:29)DavidHB Wrote:  Hmm. I'm having difficulty making MinimServer work on Ubuntu Linux as advertised.

I'm using Ubuntu verion 14.04 LTS. Here is the sequence of commands (less a succession of attempts to discover what Linux regarded as the correct archive fle name):

david@Wootton-Ubuntu:~$ MinimServer/minimserver/bin/update MinimServer-0.8.3-linux-x64
...
Enter name of new MinimServer archive:
MinimServer/MinimServer-0.8.3-linux-x64.tar.gz
Checking for running instances of MinimServer...
Stopping MinimServer process 1785
Migrating autostart configuration
Acquiring root privilege for system configuration update...
[sudo] password for david:
MinimServer update completed successfully
david@Wootton-Ubuntu:~$ MinimServer/minimserver/bin/startd
david@Wootton-Ubuntu:~$

After the reporting of the successful update, no MinimServer icon appeared on the desktop. I then tried using the startd command directly. This exited without an error message (successful completion?), but again no icon appeared. There is no MinimServer icon in either the top or side bars of the Ubuntu desktop, but after a reboot the MinimServer log indicated that there was a normal startup, and MinimWatch on my PC can also see the Ubuntu instance running.

What am I doing wrong?

David

Have you read the updated instructions in the User guide? From these, you will see that startd is now used only to create a daemon background process. To show the MinimServer minim icon in the system tray, you need to enable desktop integration and double-click the MinimServer launch icon on your desktop.