InterMapper RemoteAccess 5.0.5

InterMapper RemoteAccess is packaged as a self-extracting installer, which contains the necessary programs and support files.

Installing InterMapper RemoteAccess on Windows

Double-click the file InterMapper_RemoteAccess_Setup_5.0.5.exe and follow the instructions.

Installing InterMapper RemoteAccess on Mac OS X

Double-click on InterMapper_RemoteAccess_5.0.5.dmg to open the disk image. Drag the InterMapper RemoteAccess icon into the Applications folder or onto your Desktop. Double-click on the icon to start InterMapper RemoteAccess.

Installing InterMapper RemoteAccess on Linux/Unix/Solaris

The following command will start the InterMapper RemoteAccess installer:

$ sh ./Install_InterMapper_RemoteAccess_5.0.5.bin

To launch InterMapper RemoteAccess, type:

$ cd InterMapper_RemoteAccess_5.0.5
$ ./intermapper-remoteaccess.sh

Alternatively, if you are using a system that supports the freedesktop.org Desktop icon spec, the installer script should place an icon on your desktop for 'InterMapper RemoteAccess', and double-clicking it should start InterMapper RemoteAccess.

Removing InterMapper RemoteAccess from Linux/Unix/Solaris

To remove InterMapper RemoteAccess, simply delete the "InterMapper_RemoteAccess_5.0.5" directory, and the "InterMapper Remote Access" icon from your desktop.

InterMapper with Compiz, Beryl or Enlightenment

There is a bug when using Java with Compiz or certain other window managers that affects InterMapper, resulting in blank windows when starting either the InterMapper console or InterMapper RemoteAccess. This bug has been mitigated somewhat by Java 6 Update 1, but problems still remain. As a work-around, you can set the AWT_TOOLKIT environment variable to "MToolkit" prior to starting the InterMapper GUI. This tells Java to revert to an older rendering method, which will not integrate as well with modern desktop environments, but doesn't suffer from the same bug.

$ cd InterMapper_RemoteAccess_5.0.5
$ AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit ./intermapper-remoteaccess.sh

If you wish to set this option for future sessions, add the following line to ~/.bashrc:

$ echo -e "\nexport AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit" >> ~/.bashrc

Any new terminal windows that you open will have this setting in them by default as soon as you have run this command, but applications started from the menu will not pick it up until after you log out and log back in again. This will work for all Java applications on your system (which were probably similarly broken), not just InterMapper.