kml in linux

[cafegeo]

Everyone has been really helpful here and I am getting no help for the Google Support Linux so I thought I would ask my questions here...

I am using x term on linux machine. Once I have loaded a kml file
command
googleearth /../../doc.kml

Now I have a google instance open how would I load another kml without opening another x term and calling googleearth again and creating a new instance. I don't want to open it in the interface (trying to do from command).

If you don't know that question maybe this one: How do I close google earth from command line?

Thank you,
cafegeo

[simon_a]

Hello,

I've not used GE in Linux, but have you tried running the command in the background with a '&' character at the end?:
Code:

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googleearth /../../doc.kml &

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My guess is that, the second time you do this, the original instance of GE will pick it up but I could be wrong.

Give it a try and let us know how you get on...



Simon.

[cafegeo]

That code did not seem to work. Here is what happened:
I did this code
googleearth /../../doc.kml &

then
googleearth /../../doc2.kml &

and it still opened up a new instance of google earth
and it printed this to the screen

Google Earth appears to be running already. Please kill the
existing process, or delete /home/sbailey/.googleearth/instance-running-lock if this is an error.

Any ideas ?

Thanks,
cafegeo

[Walt_Haas]

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I am using x term on linux machine. Once I have loaded a kml file
command
googleearth /../../doc.kml

Now I have a google instance open how would I load another kml without opening another x term and calling googleearth again and creating a new instance. I don't want to open it in the interface (trying to do from command).

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If you just want to add more information to the existing GE window, you can type Ctrl-O and it will prompt you for a file. If you want to open a second GE window, that's a different problem and I don't know the answer :-(

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If you don't know that question maybe this one: How do I close google earth from command line?

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Code:

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killall googleearth-bin

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HTH -- Walt