KDE & Neverwinter Nights

LizardMan · 06-02-2003, 07:01 AM

Hello! I am a newbie to this board. I came across it when looking for a solution to my problem, and although I didnt find it here, the people seem cool and I found one thread to be very interesting. Hopefully i will become a frequent visitor.

Anyway, my small problem: Bioware has been good enough to release the binaries for the NWN client (proving that the interest in linux support by large companies is expanding, YAY!) and Ive installed it on my SuSE box. It works great! (better than windows even) But I cant seem to make a Desktop shortcut to it in KDE. I can run it by using the console and typing "./nwn" (it also requires that you be in the program's dir) but even if I put the entire path in the shortcut's "Command" field, it wont open!

Any ideas as to what im doing wrong? It would be great if someone could help. Advanced thanks!

Korff · 06-02-2003, 07:28 AM

Perhaps a shell script is in order?

MasterC · 06-02-2003, 07:41 AM

Yes, that or add the nwn directory to your $PATH like I did. I prefer to be able to just, from anywhere, type:
nwn

As for desktop shortcuts, I don't see why the full path doesn't work, other than the need to be in the directory (but I am still confused since by adding it to my path... nope. Nevermind, I added the nwn executable as a symlink..)..

Ok, so here's an idea:
symlink the nwn executable to a directory in your PATH, I chose:
ln -s /usr/local/games/nwn/nwn /usr/local/bin/nwn
And what that does is execute nwn from within the nwn directory. See if that will suffice. Short of that, the shell script sounds like a good idea.

Cool

LizardMan · 06-02-2003, 07:50 AM

Jeese, I feel like a total newb

... I dont know what a symlink or shellscript is... Im lost... heh. Can you give me a clue how to do that? Thanks again!

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MasterC · 06-02-2003, 07:53 AM

Sure, actually I did. The sentence starting "ln -s" is a symlink.

man ln for more info

A shell script, well if the ln doesn't work, we'll get into that.

Cool

MasterC · 06-02-2003, 07:59 AM

{OT/ONT}
Just out of curiosity, what kind of hardware do you have? I am just thinking that you could get even more of a perfomance increase by cutting out KDE while playing. I don't know if it'd work, but something like this as shell script (don't try it, just thinking out loud so someone can assist me):

Code:

!#/bin/sh
telinit 3
xinit 
/path/to/nwn/nwn &&
telinit 5

? Anyone, would something like that work?

Cool

tcaptain · 06-02-2003, 08:01 AM

Does SUSE have a 'failsafe' wm setting like Mandrake does? I use that if I need to squeeze CPU power

Its just X and a terminal window.

MasterC · 06-02-2003, 08:04 AM

Yeah, that's pretty good, but a raw xinit would be just that much more power

Never can have too much ya know *MasterC walks away to find something small to pick on..

Cool

LizardMan · 06-02-2003, 08:05 AM

Ok, I tried the symlink. But when I gave it a click it poped up "Program not found!" BUT I KNOW ITS THERE! I JUST KNOW IT! heh. My nwn is installed in "/home/me/.nwn/" because when I unstalled it as root in "/usr/local/games/nwn/" it wouldnt let me play the game unless I was logged in as root.

So to make the simlink I did
ls -s /home/me/.nwn/nwn /home/me/Desktop/nwn

did I go wrong somewhere?

MasterC · 06-02-2003, 08:09 AM

Yeah. You wanna symlink it to inside your path, not your home directory:
ln -s /home/me/.nwn/nwn /usr/local/bin/nwn

Then, setup your desktop shortcut to point to either just nwn or /usr/local/bin/nwn

Cool

LizardMan · 06-02-2003, 08:10 AM

Wow, people posted while I was responding... heh...

Im not to worried about squeezing the power... Ive got a Athlon XP 1700+, a 128m GeForce 4 Ti-4400, and 512m DDR. Im good on power.

MasterC · 06-02-2003, 08:13 AM

Good deal, that's how I am, but it's always nice to know if you need it, you could pull some extra juice out of it

cool

LizardMan · 06-02-2003, 08:26 AM

hmm...

Quote:

Konsole
me@linux:~> nwn
/usr/local/bin/nwn: line 12: ./nwmain: No such file or directory
me@linux:~>

Does that meen its looking for nwmain in "/usr/local/bin?"

LizardMan · 06-02-2003, 08:34 AM

Wait a tick...

here is the code for the script for running NWN:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# This script runs Neverwinter Nights from the current directory

export SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE=0
export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0

# If you do not wish to use the SDL library included in the package, remove
# ./lib from LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib:./miles:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

./nwmain $@

You think if I change that last line to include the full path, itll work?

LizardMan · 06-02-2003, 08:42 AM

Nope... that didnt work.