Setting display in DS9
0. Does't work for Windows.
The instructions below are suitable for Linux, Mac OSX, and
Solaris. If interested to get this system working under Windows,
please let me know.
1. Get ds9 and XPA
The display system neads ds9, XPA
suite, and wget.
Download and install them (but note that most likely, wget is already installed
on your system).
XPA source code can be obtained from here.
2. Download script
- Download the following perl scipt: ds9-400d
- Edit the header (most importantly, check paths to ds9,xpaset,
xpaget, and wget).
- Save somewhere and make it executable.
3. Setup mime type
If you know how to edit mime types from the Firefox preferences, go
ahead and add a new type called application/ds9-command which
uses the helper application
/path/where/you/installed/script/ds9-400d. Like this:
If you don't know how to do this, try clicking on this link;
Hopefully Firefox will open this window:
Select "Open with", then Browse and set the application to
/path/where/you/installed/script/ds9-400d. Now select
"Do this automatically for files like this ..." and click
OK.
If all goes well, an empty ds9 window should pop up
That's it