MinimWatch - no tray icon(s) or desktop launcher

[nickc]

(22-11-2017 23:09)simoncn Wrote:  No need to reinstall MinimWatch or rerun setup if you change to a different version of Java. Just edit the minimstart.conf file, then stop and restart MinimWatch.

You can check the version of Java in use by looking at the start of the minimwatch.log file. This will also tell you which MinimWatch update level is installed.

You are right about the nightmare. Meet me for a beer some time and I will tell you more....

I sense I'm almost there but not quite!
Minimwatch seems to find java 9 now, but is denied permission. I've tried changing the permissions (not something I do very often so may be erroneous) but to no avail:

Code:

nick@nick-build-1:~/Programmes$ minimwatch/bin/startc
minimwatch/bin/startc: 41: minimwatch/bin/startc: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-9: Permission denied
nick@nick-build-1:~/Programmes$ sudo chmod -R ugo+rwx /usr/lib/jvm/jre-9
nick@nick-build-1:~/Programmes$ minimwatch/bin/startc
minimwatch/bin/startc: 41: minimwatch/bin/startc: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-9: Permission denied

Then

Code:

nick@nick-build-1:~/Programmes$ ls -l /usr/lib/jvm/jre-9
total 24
drwxrwxrwx  2 nick nick 4096 Nov 22 11:51 bin
drwxrwxrwx  4 nick nick 4096 Nov 22 11:51 conf
drwxrwxrwx 74 nick nick 4096 Nov 22 11:51 legal
drwxrwxrwx 11 nick nick 4096 Nov 22 11:51 lib
-rwxrwxrwx  1 nick nick  158 Aug  3 06:26 README.html
-rwxrwxrwx  1 nick nick 1566 Aug  3 06:26 release
nick@nick-build-1:~/Programmes$

if I understand it properly, would seem to indicate permissions have been changed.
I'm hoping this is just my ignorance and inexperience and you'll spot straight away what needs doing.

So far as a logfile with update level and java version number is concerned, I can only find two text files within the minimwatch folder.
There's minimwatch/minimwatch-0.8.4/lib/minimwatch-0.8.4.jmpkg, which has:

Quote:.name = MinimWatch
.version = 0.8.4
.copyright = Copyright © 2012-2016 Simon Nash. All rights reserved.
.update = minimwatch-0.8.4.jmupd
.modules = minimwatch-0.8.203.jar, minimui-0.8.212.jar, jminim-0.6.217.jar, ohnet()-1.6.1919.zip, minimscript$-0.8.201.jar
.conflict = {le}minimwatch-0.8-update-39

and minimwatch/data/minimwatch-out.log, which has a single line which hasn't changed or been added to as I've made further attempts to get minimwatch started:

Quote:/home/nick/Programmes/minimwatch/bin/startd: 184: exec: java: not found

It does at least confirm that hooking up to java is the thing that needs to happen.