Linux & Mathematica 4.2:NotebookDirectory is not a known option
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- Subject: [mg43982] Linux & Mathematica 4.2:NotebookDirectory is not a known option
- From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons at globalsymmetry.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 04:16:22 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I get the following error message every time I start the kernel: "SetOptions::optnf: NotebookDirectory is not a known option for $FrontEnd." I seem to recall having found a way to fix this by changing the init.m, but I can't remember what that was. It started with the maintanance release of 4.2. Does anybody know the fix for this problem? It seems to happen for any parameter given to SetOptions[$FrontEnd,___]. That is, if I delete the NotebookDirectory argument I get a similar error as follows: "SetOptions::optnf: NotebooksMenu is not a known option for $FrontEnd." This is the init.m, which is what Mathematica created without my intervention: SetOptions[$FrontEnd, NotebookDirectory:>FrontEnd`FileName[{$RootDirectory, "home", "hattons", \ "code", "mma", "mma", "geometry"}, CharacterEncoding -> "iso8859-1"], NotebooksMenu->{ "transforms.nb"->{ FrontEnd`FileName[{$RootDirectory, "home", "hattons", "code", "mma", "mma", "geometry"}, "transforms.nb", CharacterEncoding -> "iso8859-1"], True, False, True}, "rotations.nb"->{ FrontEnd`FileName[{$RootDirectory, "home", "hattons", "code", "mma", "mma", "geometry"}, "rotations.nb", CharacterEncoding -> "iso8859-1"], True, False, True}, "inertialFrames.nb"->{ FrontEnd`FileName[{$RootDirectory, "home", "hattons", "code", "mma", "mma", "geometry"}, "inertialFrames.nb", CharacterEncoding -> "iso8859-1"], True, False, True}, "TransformObjects.nb"->{ FrontEnd`FileName[{$RootDirectory, "home", "hattons", "code", "mmaApplications", "GS"}, "TransformObjects.nb", CharacterEncoding -> "iso8859-1"], True, False, True} }, FindSettings->{"FindString"->"transformCur", "ReplaceString"->"inertialFrame", "WindowMargins"->{{Automatic, 605}, {487, Automatic}}}, OptionInspectorSettings->{"WindowSize"->{508, 400}, "WindowMargins"->{{546, Automatic}, {Automatic, 400}}}, InterruptSettings->{"WindowMargins"->{{Automatic, 608}, {Automatic, 506}}}, HelpBrowserSettings->{"WindowSize"->{948, 627}, "WindowMargins"->{{271, Automatic}, {Automatic, 146}}} ]