How do I get the game to run Minecraft LXDE openSUSE 12.2 operating system? Thank you…
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> How do I get the game to run Minecraft LXDE openSUSE 12.2 operating
> system? Thank you…
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You could do this by running
java -jar /path/to/minecraft.jar
either through <Alt><F2> starter or a console
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My younger grandchildren play Minecraft games a lot all within Firefox without root access, without calling upon self except to help them establish ID using their email addresses.
BTW am NON-Technical.
To get Minecraft running on itself, follow instructions on their site, these work perfectly.
To run MC in Firefox, I did not have to do anything either, it just works out of the box.
…time to bash the games forum. 
I got the problem that the minecraft launcher gets black after i login to my account.
The fix was, that you must download the latest lwjgl binaries and copy it to the minecraft folder.
lwjgl.org - Home of the Lightweight Java Game Library
Extract the zip and copy the jar files from the directory “jar” into $HOME/.minecraft/bin
And copy the *.so files from the directory “native/linux” into $HOME/.minecraft/bin/natives/
Overwrite all existing files in the minecraft folder of course.
And then minecraft should work. Just to archive this for openSUSE 
Cheers !!! Glad you found out before my kids find out it doesn’t work anymore 
Is Minecraft server paid or free?? I don’t know much about that…I want to play mincraft games…
Hi, welcome
AFAIK minecraft-server is free ( at least I run a free version ). The game itself is not free
Find in 12.3 (Gnome) Minecraft seems repeat problem whitescreen not playable.
Not yet resolved despite changes: https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/games/480395-minecraft-games.html#post2503512
Workaround by young user is re-boots back to 12.1 where Minecraft still works fine.
MC 1.5.1 works perfectly here with 12.3/openjdk after updating lwjgl. Man that is a lot of acronyms!
Still puzzled why ~/.minecraft failed work for subscribed user who accessed using Firefox fine if logged into 12.1.
Whilst attempting to resolve, to avoid need download again, kept needed files within bin folder, holding.
lwjgl-2.8.5.zip
LWJGLUpdater.jar
minecraft.jar
Had wondered if the LWJGL may be included with openSUSE 12.*
Reading again through
Source: https://minecraft.net/download
**Minecraft for Linux / Other**
Download [minecraft.jar (89 KB)](https://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/launcher/minecraft.jar). The jar is executable and might work as-is. If you run into memory issues, try launching it with java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame, also please use Sun's JVM.
linux-jcdp:~ # zypper se -i java
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
--+-----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+--------
i | gcc-java | The system GNU Java Compiler | package
i | gcc47-java | The GNU Java Compiler | package
i | java-1_5_0-gcj-compat | JPackage Runtime Scripts for GCJ | package
i | java-1_5_0-gcj-compat-devel | JPackage development scripts for GCJ | package
i | java-1_7_0-openjdk | Java runtime environment based on OpenJDK 7 and IcedTea 7 | package
i | java-ca-certificates | Utilities CA certificate import to gcj | package
i | libjavascriptcoregtk-1_0-0 | JavaScript Core Engine, GTK+ Port | package
i | libjavascriptcoregtk-3_0-0 | JavaScript Core Engine, GTK+ Port | package
i | timezone-java | Timezone Descriptions | package
linux-jcdp:~ #
Curious tried command: java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp minecraft.jar
Immediately new window/terminal opened displaying minecraft, requesting user to sign in, so did and it worked.
My younger user now pleased, even claims he prefers do this rather than need re-start into 12.1 to access Firefox method.
BTW remember check how start Space Invaders to show him 
A copy and paste of data (edited-privacy) as displayed on the terminal:
xxxDELETEDxxx@linux-jcdp:~/bin> java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp minecraft.jar net.minecraft.LauncherFrame
asdf
229 recipes
27 achievements
2013-03-29 14:48:40 [CLIENT] [INFO] Setting user: xxxDELETEDxxx
(Session ID is xxxDELETEDxxx)
2013-03-29 14:48:41 [CLIENT] [INFO] LWJGL Version: 2.8.5
Starting up SoundSystem...
Initializing LWJGL OpenAL
(The LWJGL binding of OpenAL. For more information, see http://www.lwjgl.org)
OpenAL initialized.
2013-03-29 14:48:43 [CLIENT] [INFO] Found animation info for: textures/blocks/lava_flow.txt
2013-03-29 14:48:43 [CLIENT] [INFO] Found animation info for: textures/blocks/water_flow.txt
2013-03-29 14:48:43 [CLIENT] [INFO] Found animation info for: textures/blocks/fire_0.txt
2013-03-29 14:48:43 [CLIENT] [INFO] Found animation info for: textures/blocks/fire_1.txt
2013-03-29 14:48:43 [CLIENT] [INFO] Found animation info for: textures/blocks/lava.txt
2013-03-29 14:48:43 [CLIENT] [INFO] Found animation info for: textures/blocks/portal.txt
2013-03-29 14:48:43 [CLIENT] [INFO] Found animation info for: textures/blocks/water.txt
2013-03-29 14:48:43 [CLIENT] [INFO] Found animation info for: textures/items/clock.txt
2013-03-29 14:48:43 [CLIENT] [INFO] Found animation info for: textures/items/compass.txt
2013-03-29 14:48:47 [CLIENT] [INFO] Stopping!
SoundSystem shutting down...
Author: Paul Lamb, www.paulscode.com
xxxDELETEDxxx@linux-jcdp:~/bin>
Closed and opened a few times to check it continued working.
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