Starting IDEA 5.0.1 under Linux

Hello,

• Marius Scurtescu <marius@sxip.com> wrote:

If you close the command prompt then IDEA will close instantly. Both
Eclipse and NetBeans are much smarter in this respect. Probably that
the start up script should fork a new process and it doesn't do that.

Try "nohup ./idea.sh &" while being in the same directory as idea.sh is.

Also, it is impossible to add IDEA to a menu or a panel, it won't
start at all.

This question is too general. You have probably to use the full path.

This could be related to the previous issue.

Hardly.

HTH,
-hs

Try "nohup ./idea.sh &" while being in the same
directory as idea.sh is.

That worked, thanks.

Also, it is impossible to add IDEA to a menu or a

panel, it won't

start at all.

This question is too general. You have probably to
use the full path.

Yes, the path is fine, this is the first thing I checked. I wrote a short scripts that cd's into the the IDEA bin folder and then starts the script there. I added nohup in front of the command, still no luck.

All in all, I think IntelliJ should spend a bit of time making IDEA more Linux friendly.

Marius

Yes, the path is fine, this is the first thing I
checked. I wrote a short scripts that cd's into the
the IDEA bin folder and then starts the script there.
I added nohup in front of the command, still no
luck.

All in all, I think IntelliJ should spend a bit of
time making IDEA more Linux friendly.

Marius

I am using Gnome and have a added IDEA to my panel without any problem, so I don't think this is IDEA's fault...
(I am using SuSE and Gentoo, haven't tried Ubuntu...)

BTJ

&gt; I am using Gnome and have a added IDEA to my panel
&gt; without any problem, so I don't think this is IDEA's
&gt; fault...
&gt; (I am using SuSE and Gentoo, haven't tried
&gt; Ubuntu...)

Could you please post a screenshot of your panel properties? Or at least tell me what command did you use?

Thanks,
Marius

The command field of my application launcher under gnome looks like this

sh -c 'export IDEA_JDK=/usr/local/java/jdk1.5;/usr/local/idea-5.0/bin/idea.sh'

Yes, the problem seem to be the fact that environment variables are not passed to the command (at least not the ones I expect). After explicitly setting IDEA_JDK in the script everything works fine, no need for nohup.

Thanks for all the replies,
Marius
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