Moving the IDM Designer Location in Linux
Novell Cool Solutions: Tip
By Geoffrey Carman
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Posted: 14 Nov 2007 |
Problem
If you have installed Designer for Identity Manager on Linux, and want to move its location, or rename it, it is not as simple as just moving or renaming the directory.
Solution
The start script (StartDesigner.sh) and the configuration of the JRE file (Designer.ini) need to be edited to reference the new path.
The desktop icon (<your home dir>/Desktop/Designer.desktop) contains a path reference to where the StartDesigner.sh script should be. That will need to be edited.
StartDesigner.sh is in
#!/bin/sh LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/data/programs/designer3M2unstable/designer/eclipse/plugins/com.novell.designer.core.iconeditor_2.0.0.200706201206/os/linux:/home/data/programs/designer3M2unstable/designer/eclipse/plugins/com.novell.designer.idm.config_2.0.0.200706201206/os/linux:/home/data/programs/designer3M2unstable/designer/eclipse/plugins/com.novell.designer.idm.config_2.0.0.200706201206/os/linux/gcc3 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH MAGICK_CONFIGURE_PATH=/home/data/programs/designer3M2unstable/designer/eclipse/plugins/com.novell.designer.core.iconeditor_2.0.0.200706201206/os/linux/ImageMagick-6.2.6/config export MAGICK_CONFIGURE_PATH /home/data/programs/designer3M2unstable/designer/eclipse/Designer
As you can see, three variables get set and reference the complete path to the Designer install. Designer.ini is in the same location, and as you can see, it sets a variable -vm that tells Designer which JRE to use. (Because Designer is Java-based, this is critical, as you might imagine).
-vm /home/data/programs/designer3M2unstable/designer/eclipse/jre/bin/java -vmargs -Xms256m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m
As Designer matures, I find myself using 2.1.1, 3.0 M1, 3.0M2, and some nightly builds. Having them in seperate directories is very helpful when I encounter a bug.
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