About this section

If you are looking for a simple Help, go here. This section is more of a "Hacking Hawkscope".

Running the jar

You have to build it first.

If you have your Java Runtime Environment installed correctly, double click hawkscope.jar to run it.

Otherwise you can run it from command line:

java -jar hawkscope.jar

Running Hawkscope on Startup

Windows

Hawkscope is automatically added to your Start Menu -> Programs -> Startup folder during setup. If you don't want it to run on Windows startup, remove the shortcut.

Linux (Gnome)

Go to System -> Preferences -> Sessions Add new autostart item with command:

hawkscope -delay 5000

Ubuntu users may look here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AddingProgramToSessionStartup. Startup delay is required due to Java Bug #6438179

Mac OS X

Right click Hawkscope dock item and then select "Open at Login". Or go to System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items and add Hawkscope there manually.

Configuration

Hawkscope writes it's own configuration file .hawkscope.properties in user home folder.

Operating Systems have different user home folder:

Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\
Windows Vista: C:\Users\username\
Linux: /home/username
Mac: /Users/username

You can edit this file with plain text editor to manually configure several options. As of 0.4.0 Hawkscope has a configuration window, you should only edit .hawkscope.properties to add Quick Acess path hacks:

Property	Title	Description
quick.access.list	Quick Access List	Adds custom entries to quick access list. Entries separated with ";". It can either be a full path, a java property, like ${user.home} (default) or environmental variable like ${$JAVA_HOME}.

Example .hawkscope.properties path hack:

quick.access.list = ${user.home};${user.home}/Development;/mnt/myserv;${$JAVA_HOME}

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