OKay, I'm back on my better laptop and takin another kick at the Linux can, after the Ubuntu 10.04 debacle. Am now on Linux Mint 11, and although I know a bit from before, I like it more already.

All that aside, I am having trouble running vo . I made the Vendetta file executable, and after a few white screens, it ran once or twice. Now it never does.... just a white screen.

I tried re-installing to no avail. Any help will be appreciated.

Edit: Okay, I stumbled upon a fix that worked:

open Compiz Fusion,

change Windows Manager from Compiz to Metacity.

enjoy.

New problem: Every shortcut or such that I make to the vendetta icon fails to launch. No response.
wtf?

Please treat me like I am a total Linux noob.

Okay, if I move the Vendetta icon to the desktop and run it, this errors.log appears:

Setting up signal handlers...archive returned 3
[Sun Sep 25 19:13:25 2011]
FXInfo: Error opening 'dat/effects.dat'.
[Sun Sep 25 19:13:25 2011]
FXInfo: Error opening 'dat/materials.dat'.
[Sun Sep 25 19:13:25 2011]
FXInfo: Error opening 'dat/effectcomponents.dat'.
[Sun Sep 25 19:13:25 2011] SetVideoMode failed, line 34: m_currentvideodriverinfo=(nil), m_videodriver=(nil)

does that help?

Thanks in advance.

Aha. You need to use ~/bin/vendetta, not ~/.vendetta/vendetta.

hmm, there is not a vendetta in the /bin folder. Just what appear to be shell commands. The only vendetta files I have are in home/.vendetta....

Actually, I said ~/bin, not /bin. The '~' stands for your home directory. So ~/bin would be something like /home/starkdar/bin/.

If for some reason the game didn't install the executable there, open a terminal and run "which vendetta". That will return the path to the file that you want to link to on your desktop.

Thanks for the ~ tip, that makes sense.

/home/starkdar/bin does not exist, I simply hit [y] during install to use defaults so getting help; when something inevitably fucked up; would be easy.

The game did not install anything there, as there is no there, and it didn't create one. I ran the "which vendetta" from a terminal, from a variety of locations, to no effect. What am I doing wrong?

If 'which vendetta' doesn't return anything, that means vendetta didn't install an executable in your path for some reason. Probably because you didn't already have a ~/bin/ set up and added to the $PATH, I don't know.

Try just making a desktop icon for ~/.vendetta/update.rlb instead. Make sure it's a symlink and not a copy though, because that file is the updater, and if you copy it I don't know if the copy will update itself. If you make a link, it is a nonissue.

Alternately, you could create a script that runs the updater. You'd just create a text file on the desktop named whatever you want, probably "Vendetta", which contains the following:

#!/bin/sh
cd ~/.vendetta
exec ./update.rlb

Then you'd just have to set the executable bit on that file. You should be able to do that by right-clicking it and finding an entry in the menu named something like "Permissions". It will probably give you a matrix of checkboxes. You want to check the box that corresponds to both "owner" and "executable".