Annoying problems

[George Toft]

Matt wrote:
> 
> I'm a brand new user to Linux (escaped from Big Brother Bill), and there
> are a few pretty minor things I have been having trouble with.
> 
> The first is that every time I start my computer, the keyboard setting
> comes up in German. I can't count how many times I've tried to fix this.
> I change it easy enough once I log in to KDE, but it never stays from
> session to session.
> 
> The second is that my binary files won't execute. I've been trying to
> download Java Runtime Environment 1.3.1 and a java based P2P application
> called Limewire. Both are binaries, but they never execute.
> 
> I'm using SuSE Personal 7.3.
> 
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Once you follow the other's advice, here's what I did to get LimeWire to 
run from the GUI (SuSE 7.3 + Icewm):
#!/bin/sh
cd /home/bob/LimeWire

CLASSPATH=".:collections.jar:xerces.jar:jl011.jar"
export CLASSPATH
J2SE_PREEMPTCLOSE=1
export J2SE_PREEMPTCLOSE
java -jar RunLime.jar

Most of it is their script.  You can see my change.

George