To start, I’m running opensuse 12.2 . I have tried imagewriter on 2 different machines, one with opensuse 12.2 32bit and the other 64bit. Both have the same result, after downloading and installing imagewriter, when I click to open it, it simply never opens. I’ve tried restarting first before opening it after I installed it but it still wont open after restarting. Imagewriter worked perfect when I tried it on windows but I have since wiped windows off all my machines and only have opensuse now. Any advice? I really dont wanna install windows just to use imagewriter. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.
Standard action to get any information from a GUI program that seems to do nothing when one tries to start by clicking somewhere is starting it from a terminal window. Then you can see if there are any (error) messages.
Also your description “after downloading and installing imagewriter,” is bit strange. I admit that installing (generic english word) software comes often down to a download and an install phase. But most people would simply say that they installed imagewriter using YaST > Software > Software management, or zypper. Please explain what you did.
I opened “software management”, searched for imagewriter, and checked the box by suse studio image writer, then clicked accept at the bottom right of the software management window and it installed…i also tried the one click method by finding it in the browser @ software.opensuse.org on the 32 bit pc…
I just tried “imagewriter” from the terminal after typing “su” first to grant root and it opened without a problem… in the shortcut/icon settings for image writer, it has this as the command: xdg-su -c “imagewriter %F”
maybe some of those strings before or after are causing the shortcut to not work? either way, you’ve already helped me, it opens from terminal… i have no problem going to the terminal to open it as i wont be using it too often…
edit:i changed xdg-su part of the command in the icon settings to just “su” and the shortcut icon now works…
thanks for the help, i now know to at least give it a try from the terminal if theres an issue with an app and to check out the command in the shortcut settings…