On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 17:14 -0600, Jonathan Osuch wrote: <snipped>
I am told that my initial colour problem was caused "because Xfractint can't find the sstools.ini file or the default map file". I'm not surprised that Xfractint can't find the sstools.ini file... neither can I! I don't believe that the packages I've tried include such an animal. If I manually navigate to a par which includes the colors, all is well. Beyond that I'm "sstools-less".
Hmm... Using the same version you are (20.4.00-1), this doesn't seem to work as it should. It should be possible to create a text file named sstools.ini and put it in a directory that xfractint can find. However, I can't determine where this would be. I thought it would be either in the directory from which you run the executable (your home directory), in the directory in which the executable resides (/usr/bin), or in the directory where the map & hlp files reside (/usr/share/xfractint). But, in this case, nothing works.ditor.
Does xfractint really use an sstools.ini file? Does Linux recognize .ini files in "the applicable directory"? I know, I know... I should compile source packages, but I can't - yet. I need the spoonfeeding which is provided by a package manager.
Yes, xfractint really does use an sstools.ini file. Linux has nothing to do with being able to find .ini files.
Thank you very much for your swift reply. Now that I know that I really should have an sstools.ini I'll try to assemble one. I have another Windows machine in the garage. I'll sort through my backups and see if I can find and adapt one to experiment with in the Unbuntu machine. Will keep you informed of any progress. John W.