meant to send this to the list: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: THUFIR HAWAT <hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx> Date: May 23, 2005 11:50 AM Subject: Re: running/executing foo.jar To: Arthur Pemberton <dalive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On 5/23/05, Arthur Pemberton <dalive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > >what's required to make the jar run with a double-click, please? ... > try making the file executeable, either with the GUI (which I am not > familiar with) or with the terminal with the follwoing command > > chmod +x HelloWorldSwing.jar > > Then to execute from the terminal just: > > ./HelloWorldSwing.jar that has not changed the behavior of the jar when "double-clicked." windows requires that an association be established between "java" and .jar files, is linux like that? any association would seem to be with file-roller at the moment. thanks, Thufir
