Pine64 makes snappy file server

[tbain98]

Sorry to hear that altdrive is not working yet. It has been working nicely for me since May.

I since have moved on to Ubuntu for my pine. The steps I reported work reliably for my Ubuntu setup when I installed 2 recent altdrive updates.

What I remember about my ArchLinux system (with xorg & xfce4) was that I had used the openjdk JRE and compiled swt from sources.
In order to get altdrive_wbhome_client going I vaguely remember that I had to turn one of the command line arguments to the java invocation from true to false or vice versa. This step was not necessary for my current Ubuntu setup.

I'm running Debian, though I was able to install and run it on an x86 VM running Debian without issues, so I'm not sure the OS would make a difference.  (Of course, the fact that you think you remember having to make a tweak under ArchLinux but not Ubuntu might disprove that theory.)

For what it's worth, I tried changing each of the boolean arguments one at a time, and none of them caused any different behavior.  I didn't try combinations of more than one variable changed concurrently (the combinatorial expansion gets to be more effort than it's worth once there's more than one independent variable), but unless you think you changed more than one at once, that shouldn't be necessary anyway.

I'm using the Oracle JRE, though I'd be a little surprised if that was the difference.  But I'll try swapping it out for OpenJDK and see if it changes anything.  Ditto for the SWT JAR, which I downloaded via apt-get rather than building myself; I can't imagine that the downloaded one would happily run the sample app but have some flaw that compiling from sources would fix, but it doesn't hurt to try...  But another night.

If you remember anything else you might have done that could be relevant, please post it here and I'll give it a shot.

Thanks for your help!
Tim