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).
