[Ifeffit] Demeter-devel Athena on OS 10.9.4
Bruce Ravel
bravel at bnl.gov
Tue Jul 8 07:46:08 CDT 2014
Thanks for that, Margaret Anne. Not knowing much about the Mac, I
would have given a much worse explanation.
I would recommend editing the demeter.ini file rather than the other
file Margaret Anne mentioned. It is possible that editing the other
file will not, in fact, make the change you are looking for happen.
Cheers,
B
On 07/07/2014 10:48 PM, Margaret Hinkle wrote:
> 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
>
> ------------------------------------
> 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 <mailto:mhinkle at eps.wustl.edu>
> website: aqgeochem.wustl.edu <http://aqgeochem.wustl.edu/>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Margaret Hinkle <mhinkle at eps.wustl.edu
> <mailto: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 <mailto:mhinkle at eps.wustl.edu>
> website: aqgeochem.wustl.edu <http://aqgeochem.wustl.edu/>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Emmanuelle Montarges-Pelletier
> <emmanuelle.montarges at univ-lorraine.fr
> <mailto: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
> --
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