On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
In any case, I downloaded the 4.3.1 jar file just now and ran it successfully with exactly the same command line you used. I opened the terminal in the folder where the jar file was located. Is it possible that you are in a different directory and just need to supply the path to the jar file?
This is one reason to use shell scripts. For example, my jabref.sh* (chmod a+x) contains: #!/bin/bash cd /opt/JabRef/ java -jar JabRef-3.8.2.jar cd This lets me open it from any virtual desktop (Xfce4 panel). HTH, Rich