GIMP Version: 2.6.8
Operating System: Linux
OS Version: Linux Fedora & Windows 7 (64-bit)
GIMP Experience: Intermediate Level

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I now have xnview, Wine, and Roba's shell.py installed. I am trying to make the wireworm.py work so it will open. Can someone please tell me how I do this. I don't know if I go to xnview, Wine or where to get this?
Where do I place the 8bf file. I do NOT have a 32 bit folder. I have the user folders that came with Gimp-2.8 (64)
Can someone please give me a step to step on this, thanks

Molly
1) Download and install XnView 64 bit.
2) Place the 8bf in any folder you want.
3) Open XnView and go to filters>adobe photoshop plugins dialog.
4) Select configure>then select add - browse to the folder you placed the 8bf in and press ok.
close XnView
5) Place Robs shellout script in your plugins folder.
6) Open Gimp-2.8 and open the image you want to edit.
7) Go to Filters>Shellout and select XnView in the drop down list - select new from visible.
8) XnView will open - go to Filters>adobe photoshop filters. The dialog will open with MV's plugins in the list (you may have to click the cross symbol next to it to drop the wire worm filter into view).
9) Select it and select start - wire worm will open.

Thank you Rod, I will give that a go.

AS Rod said except

before 1) install wine from your repo

2) better if you use a folder inside xnview or anyway in the same place where xnview will be installed (i mean the place for windows executives created by wine, ,problem outside may be the linux path different from windows path )
Don't be scared ,is simple wine will install xnview automatically at soon you give it the permission,and you double click on the installer

close or even inside (should be already one empty or with the "Harry filter" if you chosed to get that filter too (is a option when installing ) you may add a folder with your PS plugin.

to install xnview you may have first to click on xnview installer and chose "allow to run as a program" to avoid install blocked for missing permissions

Where do I find filters->adobe photoshop plugins dialog in XnView?

My experiences with Shellout.py and linux

caveats
First I am using PClinuxOS 32 bit (its a rolling release so no "version number" as such)
Gimp is 2.6.12, Python is 2.6.6
WINE is ver 1.4.1, XnView is windows version 1.98.2

Shellout is version 0.5 - I can not get more recent versions to work, I seem to recall a syntax change after 0.5 and that causes a crash here, might work elsewhere.

The first line of the program list I think remains the same as the script, but would need to change if installed differently in WINE
["XNView", "\"C:\\Program Files\\XnView\\xnview.exe\"", "png"],

lines 109 and 110 in the 0.5 script,
make sure you have a windows temp folder and you need tempfile name to reflect the actual path in your installation
tempwinfile = "C:\\windows\\temp\\tempfile.png"
tempfilename = "/home/rich/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp/tempfile.png"

Line 117 the command line - I have this
command = "/usr/bin/wine \"C:\\Program Files\\XnView\\xnview.exe\" \"" + tempwinfile + "\""

Other than that it all works very nicely PS 8bf filters go in my folder
/home/rich/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/XnView/8bf/

screenshot with an ancient lightning maker plugin

thanks Rich, now I know what one of my probs are. First of all, you know I use Fedora-17 I hope. I am not using windows.
I see in your screen shot your menu on xnvew is different than mine. Maybe I haven't got it installed properly, I don't know. Here is what mine looks like, so needless to say I don't have the Filters tab. No wonder I couldn't find it after all these hours. grrrrr. Maybe I had better delete or remove xnview and start over.

I don't know anything about this so it's just a guess but do you have to open an image first?

Your were right, thanks Eris, that did put the filters menu in. I got as far as #7 on Rods instrucs, 7) Go to Filters>Shellout and select XnView in the drop down list - select new from layer and ended up with this error below.
By the way, my shellout version is 0.3, I don't know if that makes the difference or not.

You must have an image open in XnView to see the filters menu item Molly.

Thanks Rod,
did you see the post above the one I posted? I realized through arisian's post to do that and I posted my error in step 7 of your tutorial. I must have done something wrong. I don't know what the error is saying.

Molly select the drop down arrow in the error box (More Information)
This will give better information on the cause of the error.
Paste that info here please.

Molly why you don't get the most recent version of the Shell out script ?
From the error message seems you just didn't wrote the path right for xnview

Anyway in the ShellOut topic in the filter board was discussed in detail how install shell out for Xnview on linux, here Ubuntu fedora or what else didn't change much, the point is just how to wrote the path

Because will be a "Linux looking" path till "user>home>.wine" ...from .wine start the Windows emulation so inside .wine you will found C> Program Files > Xnview> xnview.exe and windows style paths

i used > instead then bracket because i am not so sure where should be used normal "/" and where "\" for this doubt (and similar about the path ) i suggest you to give a look to the shellout discussion

Thank you pc, I will try to find it and check it out.This is the full error that I just posted.

I think you mean, "wireworm.8bf"?

Although "wireworm.8bf" works on a 64-bit system, it needs to run on a 32-bit host.

yes, xnview

I went through the first 13 of 25 pages and it was all over the place from irfranview to another software I never heard of and by the time I got that far. I forgot all I saw to do with XnView. Anyway, it is driving me nuts and make me crazy so I will take a break from it for a few hrs. thank you guys

To make it more relevent to Molly's post, here is a Fedora 17 (32 bit on an ancient Tosh M1 laptop & KDE rather than Gnome)

Not putting the screenshots inline since there are several and will bore Windows users to death

This has the lastest XnView 1.99 installed (as of 30 mins before this) and working in WINE the only snag that may occur is if the "small" version is used. So install the full version or install the additional plugins.

The ShellOut.py is version 0.5 modified for linux as my previous post, sorry the standard windoze one not will do it.

This is the base image in Fedora and Gimp
http://i.imgur.com/fdTa4.jpg

and we call ShellOut
http://i.imgur.com/57foK.jpg

XnView opens tempfile.png and we go to the filters menu and PS plugins.
http://i.imgur.com/NMsZW.jpg

Not a good screenshot but there is the plugins manager (plugins are in the XnView 8BF folder) and a plugin started.
http://i.imgur.com/irRYU.jpg

Now we have to save it in *XnView*
http://i.imgur.com/H3FdI.jpg

Close Xnview and ShellOut takes over and restores the tempfile.png to Gimp.
http://i.imgur.com/kkk55.jpg

Hope all this helps.

Rich is that Lightning Maker filter available for free in a windows version?

Yes, free and ancient.

one of my favourite sites,
http://punkinstuff.tripod.com

just had to check that it still downloads.

http://punkinstuff.tripod.com/alma/almathera.html

download is bottom of page