Puybaret, you are right!

wood, just add the checkOffScreenSupport option when invoking sweethome3d. Your path may defer. dpkg -L sweethome3d will show you where the sweethome3d.jar file is. It maybe:


java -Dcom.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.checkOffScreenSupport=false -jar /usr/share/sweethome3d ...

Just go to the download page http://www.sweethome3d.com/download.jsp download the Web Starter http://www.sweethome3d.com/SweetHome3D.jnlp and open it with javaws

This is odd, it did only show the splash screen. Today that command starts the whole application but crashed when opening Preferences.

Changing the arguments order as you said, makes Preferences work, thanks!

java -Dcom.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.checkOffScreenSupport=false -jar /usr/share/java ...

Are you sure that the .jar file you tried in the command is the Jar executable file available at the end of Download page ?

In Arch Linux, the script used to build the installable package, downloads the " Sweet Home 3D executable jar (25.7 MB, same size) " and renames it from Swee tHome3D-5.1.jar ...

The web method worked.
I installed icedtea-web 1.6.1, which provides javaws, then using the jnlp file http://www.sweethome3d.com/SweetHome3D-NoOffscreen.jnlp from the FAQ:

javaws SweetHome3D-NoOffscreen.jnlp

Or to just to change the measurement unit, edit ~/.eteks/sweethome3d/preferences.xml to ...

I also need to only change the measurements system to metric (the international). How to do it? Editing some config file?

java -jar /usr/share/java/sweethome3d.jar -Dcom.eteks.sweethome3d.j3d.checkOffScreenSupport=false

Doesn't work.

Arch Linux, jre8-openjdk 8.u66, sweethome3d 5.1