Use the solution in the FAQ (section 2-8) or you can try the shell script I wrote for my own use. My script does two things. It lets you run LimeWire from anywhere (desktop icon, menu icon, any directory in a terminal, whatever) and, to make LimeWire behave like other unix programs, it creates a .limewire directory in your home directory for LimeWire to write it's configuration files to.

My script is attached. It works brilliantly for me but I've only tested it on my system (RedHat 7.1, KDE2.2, LimeWire1.7, JDK1.3.1). It should work on most systems out there. Give it a try anyway. :-)

To install:

1. Go to the LimeWire directory and backup the old runlime.sh with: mv runlime.sh runlime.old

2. Copy runlime.sh.txt to the LimeWire directory.

3. Rename runlime.sh.txt to runlime.sh with: mv runlime.sh.txt runlime.sh

4. Make it executable with whatever permissions you choose. e.g. chmod 755 runlime.sh


That's it! You can now link to the new runlime.sh script however you like. Note however that because the configuration will now be stored in the ~/.limewire dir, LimeWire will ask you to configure everything as if you had just installed it. By default everything (Shared dir, Incomplete dir, gnutella.net, etc) will be under .limewire in your home directory. If you don't want your Shared directory to be under ~/.limewire make sure you change this when LimeWire prompts you to.

[Update: Feh, I found a bug. Script didn't work when you ran it from the limewire directory with ./runlime.sh. See next post for the fixed version. :-) ]