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1 FahMon README
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3 Version @PACKAGE_VERSION@
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5 Authors:
6 ========
7 François Ingelrest
8 Andrew Schofield
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10 Copyright:
11 ==========
12 © François Ingelrest 2003-7
13 © Andrew Schofield 2007-10
14
15 For further details see AUTHORS and THANKS
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17 Licence:
18 ========
19 FahMon is free software. Please see the file COPYING for details.
20
21 About:
22 ======
23 FahMon is an open-source tool (GPL license) that allows you to quickly check the
24 progress of your Folding@Home client (or clients if you have multiple ones),
25 avoiding you having to open different files and/or to go to the Internet (for
26 example to know how much your current work unit is worth). Other monitoring
27 tools exist (such as Electron Microscope or FahLogStats), so if you don't like
28 FahMon, have a look at them!
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30 FahMon is entirely coded in C++ and uses the wxWidgets library, which allows
31 FahMon to exist both for Linux and Windows. It is designed to be really easy to
32 use, and you should thus not encounter any major problem.
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34 For a complete version history, please see the ChangeLog file.
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36 New in this release:
37 ====================
38 To see what's new in this release, please read the NEWS and ChangeLog files.
39
40 System requirements:
41 ====================
42 Windows - Any machine capable of running Windows 2000 or later.
43 Linux - Any machine capable of running a modern X server.
44 Broadly speaking any machine you are likely to want to run FahMon on will be
45 sufficient.
46
47 Software requirements:
48 ======================
49 For additional software requirements see the REQUIRES file.
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51 Installations instructions:
52 ===========================
53 Please see the INSTALL file.
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55 Contact details:
56 ================
57 Website: http://fahmon.net/
58 Support site: http://trac.fahmon.net/
59 email: andrew_s@fahmon.net
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61 Translations
62 ============
63 The translations provided with FahMon should work with no user intervention on
64 both Linux and MS Windows provided they were installed correctly.
65
66 Editing existing translations
67 =============================
68 To edit existing translations, you can open the relevant .po file in your
69 gettext catalog editor (see REQUIRES) and start modifying the strings. On Linux,
70 these can be found in the po directory of the installation source, on MS
71 Windows, these can be found in the lang folder. Once you are happy with the
72 translations you have edited, you need to install them.
73
74 To install an edited translation on Linux, simply run "make update-gmo" then
75 "make install" (as root or sudo). This will compile the translation to a binary
76 file and install it into the relevant location.
77
78 To install the edited transltaion on MS Windows, you need to get you gettext
79 catalog editor to save a .mo file (poEdit wil do this). Save the file as
80 fahmon.mo into the relevant folder under the "lang" folder.
81
82 Restart FahMon and your new translations should appear.
83
84 Creating new translations
85 =========================
86 Make sure you have read the REQUIRES file.
87
88 Make sure you know the language code for your new translation (combine the two
89 letter language code from ISO 639-1 with the two letter country code from ISO
90 3166. See the existing translations for examples).
91
92 On Linux, copy fahmon.pot in the po folder, to 'your_translation_name'.po and
93 start editing. After saving your translation, open up configure.ac in the source
94 root directory, and navigate down to "ALL_LINGUAS" and add your new translation
95 to the list.
96 Run ./reconf; ./configure; make update-gmo; make install to add your new
97 translation. (This should not force a recompile of fahmon itself, unless you
98 passed different options to configure).
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100 On Windows, make a folder under 'lang' with the name of your translation and
101 copy fahmon.pot into it. Rename this to a .po file and start editing it. Once
102 finished, save the .mo file as fahmon.mo and restart FahMon.
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104 Once you've created translations, please create a support ticket using trac:
105 http://trac.fahmon.net/ and attach your new .po file.
106 Alternatively, email the .po file to andrew_s@fahmon.net
Note: See TracBrowser for help on using the browser.