Details
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Type: Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Priority: Blocker
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: 2.11.1.4, 2.11.2, 2.11.2.0
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Component/s: Command Line Interface, documentation, install4j
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Labels:None
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Environment:macOS with DMG installed Jalview
Description
There is no great way to launch Jalview from the command line in macOS with the (highly recommended) DMG installer application.
The closest equivalent would be
open -a /Applications/Jalview.app --args "$@"
or to open a FILE (or URL)
open -a /Applications/Jalview.app FILE
This is not ideal as getdown gets launched which may provoke an automatic update and certainly a splashscreen even if -headless has been specified (which is more likely for a CLI).
A suitable wrapper script should go into Jalview.app/Contents/MacOS (which is where it should go).
The closest equivalent would be
open -a /Applications/Jalview.app --args "$@"
or to open a FILE (or URL)
open -a /Applications/Jalview.app FILE
This is not ideal as getdown gets launched which may provoke an automatic update and certainly a splashscreen even if -headless has been specified (which is more likely for a CLI).
A suitable wrapper script should go into Jalview.app/Contents/MacOS (which is where it should go).
Attachments
Issue Links
- related with
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JAL-3523 OSX - Current working directory not preserved when Jalview.app launched with parameters from command line
- Closed
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JAL-4187 Powershell launcher script fails when given no arguments with the old ArgsParser
- Closed
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JAL-4013 Add a facility in Jalview application for user to put jalview launch script in their PATH
- Open