[Newbies] Setting up squeak on Ubuntu

K. K. Subramaniam subbukk at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 04:40:17 UTC 2009


On Thursday 09 April 2009 8:39:42 am Jerome Peace wrote:
> Its not obvious where things will be stored when saved. So far text from
> saved workspaces turn up as files in the directories of the original image
> not the links.
Unix Squeak saves files in $SQUEAK_USERDIR. It defaults to the folder "My 
Squeak/" (ugh!) in the image folder.

In the launcher change the command to:
  SQUEAK_USERDIR=/save/files/here squeak /path/to/image

> It seems to me when squeak saves something it should at least report back
> what it saved where.
You can get this path in Squeak using "FileDirectory default".

HTH .. Subbu


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