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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
GeneralWhat is Hawkscope?It's an application that resides in your system tray and allows you to browse your hard drive and open anything within seconds. How to use Hawkscope?Install it, run it, click the hawk icon Is it free?Absolutely, it's free and open source. How can I join the development?
Will the upgrade from version X to Y break my old settings in .hawkscope.properties?No, it will not. New properties are merged. What are the Network Proxy settings for?It's for checking for updates and for accessing the online help while being behind a proxy. I like Hawkscope and I want to support the developmentYou are welcome to donate a small amount of money. WindowsI'm getting a "missing msvcr71.dll" warning when running the Windows executablemsvcr71.dll is Microsoft Visual C Runtime 7.1 Dynamic Link Library. This library is not distributed along with Hawkscope windows executable (below version 0.5.3). You can download msvcr71.dll and drop it to your C:\Windows\System32 folder, or simply update Hawkscope. Where's the Windows 64-bit version?32-bit version should run fine, so I did not install 64-bit Windows just to make a build. If you can provide a 64-bit Windows build, please do. How did you make Windows .exe from a JAR file? And the Installer?How to add network shares to quick access list?Since Hawkscope 0.4.0 you can do it via Settings -> Quick Access by adding a mounted share like a regular folder. Or you can map the network share to Windows drive (right click My Computer -> Map Network Drive), i.e.: S:. The drive will be automatically displayed in Hawkscope main menu. LinuxInstallation errors due to some dependency issuesTry enabling third party repositories. More here. Can't load library: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.soThis means you had java-6-openjdk installed prior to sun-java6-jre. Run in Terminal: sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun I've made Hawkscope autostart in my Gnome sessions preference, but it does not show upPlease read the UsingHawkscope carefully. Due to Java Bug: #6438179 you have to add -delay 15000 (starts application 15 seconds later, so system tray loads first). How to add network shares to quick access list?Mount them first, then add in regular way (/mnt/share/name) Hawkscope sucks, how to remove it?sudo dpkg -r hawkscope #to remove configuration rm ~/.hawkscope.properties Mac OS XI would like to remove Hawkscope icon from the dockI would like that too (Issue #31), however there is an Eclipse SWT bug on this subject: #268687 PluginsTwitter plugin does not work, and it also breaks Hawkscope menu from loadingTwitter API has changed recently. When Twitter4J library will adopt this change, new version of Twitter plugin will be out. Meanwhile please remove the plugin. Plugins are located at:
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in system tray / menu bar, the menu will pop out. Navigate through it to find your files and folders. Click on Settings to pimp your menu with custom Quick Access list, plugins, etc. Refer to 
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You should add the ability to start the menu through hotkey. I'd like to bind it to a mouse key, and have the menu poping up in the middle of the screen, eg. where my pointer is.
Is there a linux deb repository available for installing hawkscope and keeping it up-to-date?
@KPocius not yet, however Hawkscope uses it's own notifications about updates. Setting up a deb repository is planned in future.
kawscope seems ideal to support delicious bookmarks
please make it portable. i'm finding out that 0.6.1 is not portable. testing version 0.6.1 with sandboxie 3.34
Any way to remove unused drive letters from the popup list?
ie. entering w:\ etc in blacklist does not work. I have 4 unused media drive 'slots' open, a unneeded page part. and image part.
Great concept. Couple of suggestions: 1.Should have option to hide any item on popup - may be right-click hides that item. Unhide from Settings->Blacklists? 2.Need a plugin for Google Docs.