Thanks for warnings regarding running as root from cjh-novell. I understand the potential problems of doing that but that was the only way to get the full functionality of draftsight on my system, i.e., open, close, save, print, etc to get some work done. Again, running as a normal user gives the message upon trying to open a file that the program has encountered a problem and will shut down. That functionality gets you nowhere so working as root was my only means of getting any usefulness out of the program. I have also completely registered the product. I have the same ownerships and permissions as cmcgrath5025 listed above.
However, I did find that the contribution of simOne above does allow proper running with all capabilities as a normal user, i.e.,
cd /opt/dassault-systemes/draftsight/bin
./DraftSight -style windows
note that draftsight installed itself as DraftSight on my machine and not all small letters as per simOne’s code above.
I have no idea of where the “-style windows” option was found so cudos to simOne. Note also that the gui that opens as a normal user still has a different appearance than the gui that root opens.
By the way, I capitalized ROOT in my previous comments only for emphasis not for any other historical reason. I have been doing scientific computing in unix (on sun workstations, and larger machines such as crays, etc) and linux (on pc) for more than 30 years; back to the original versions of many of these systems and I am not a recent convert from windows.
I thank all for their contributions but we shouldn’t let these discussions degenerate into innuendos upon the competence of other people.
I was only reporting my observations to perhaps help some others get some work done albeit with some “improper” usage of openSUSE.
The draftsight software is great and you can’t beat the price. It is better than any other linux cad program I have tried.
I am done with this discussion.
Tom Kosvic