[Ifeffit] Demeter-devel Athena on OS 10.9.4

[Margaret Hinkle]

Dear Emmanuelle,
I just realized I gave one option to fix this -- not exactly the directions
that Bruce gave for step 1. To fix it that way (perhaps the easiest way) do
the following:
1. Open Terminal. You want to change your directory to where demeter.ini
lives -- which as Bruce said, is in $HOME/.horae. To do this, type into
Terminal: cd $HOME/.horae
2. Hit enter
2. In Terminal, type: open demeter.ini
3. Demeter.ini should open -- go to the section [athena], and change the
line with 'tips = false' to 'tips = true'

It should work from there.

If you have trouble opening the demeter.ini file following the above,
perhaps the safest thing to do is to do this without Terminal. Just make
sure that you are able to see hidden files on your computer, otherwise you
will think that .horae does not exist. You will find demeter.ini in:
1. /'your user or home folder'/.horae
2. Open demeter.ini with Text Edit or some similar application. Go to the
section [athena], and change the line with 'tips = false' to 'tips = true'

Best,
Margaret Anne

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Margaret Anne G. Hinkle
Ph.D. Candidate
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis
Rudolph Hall
Campus Box 1169
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
email: mhinkle at eps.wustl.edu
website: aqgeochem.wustl.edu


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Margaret Hinkle <mhinkle at eps.wustl.edu>
wrote:

> Dear Emmanuelle,
> Here is exactly what I did to set the Athena tip-of-the-day parameter to
> false. I hope this helps.
>
> 1. Open the file 'athena.demeter_conf' using Xcode or your text edit
> application.
> This should be the only file of that name on your computer, so you can
> find this either by searching in spotlight, or if your demeter-devel
> downloaded to the same folders mine did, go to the following folder to find
> athena.demeter_conf:
>
> /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16.3/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Demeter/configuration
>
>
> 2. Edit the tip-of-the day section per Bruce's instructions. The first
> section is where you will change the tip-of-the-day parameter (See that
> line 47 stipulates variable=tips -- that is the section you want). Line 51
> should say 'default=true'. Change this to 'default=false'. Then you should
> be good to go!
>
> Good luck!
>
> Best,
> Margaret Anne
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
> Margaret Anne G. Hinkle
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Earth and Planetary Sciences
> Washington University in St. Louis
> Rudolph Hall
> Campus Box 1169
> 1 Brookings Drive
> St. Louis, MO 63130
> email: mhinkle at eps.wustl.edu
> website: aqgeochem.wustl.edu
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Emmanuelle Montarges-Pelletier <
> emmanuelle.montarges at univ-lorraine.fr> wrote:
>
>> Dear all
>> I have just installed Demeter-devel on a computer Mac OS X 10.9.4,
>> following the suggestions of Frank Schima and the different steps for
>> installing xcode and command tools, macports, Xquartz. The mailing list was
>> really helpful, thanks!
>> After having written Athena on a terminal window I have apparently the
>> same "freezing" phenomena reported earlier by Margaret Hinkle, July 4th
>> 2014
>> "With the new demeter-devel Macports download, Athena freezes upon
>> opening. Opening up Athena via Terminal brought up perl5.16 -- I could see
>> the GUI, the Tip of the Day, and the Athena startup box, but the system
>> just froze. I had to force quit every time, getting the following notice in
>> my Terminal: 'Terminated: 15'.".
>>
>> I don't know how to solve this Athena blocking and completely lost when I
>> read the solution provided by Bruce "Look for the '[athena]' section of
>> demeter.ini, which should be in '$HOME/.horae'. Set the "tips" parameter
>> to "false". That will suppress the tips dialog."
>>
>>  I really tried to do on my own,...but I have to be honest, I don't know
>> how to change the tips parameter. I would need a specific lesson, something
>> entitled "demeter for dummies".
>> So, could someone help me?
>> Thanks for your answer
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Emmanuelle
>> --
>> .................................................
>> Emmanuelle Montarges-pelletier
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