Adding or editing a SETI@home location is done via a dialog box. Mandatory entries are Description, which must contain a descriptive name for your SETI@home location, and Seti@home Directory, the directory where the SETI@home client is located. Optionally you can use the Browse button ... to select the SETI@home directory. Make sure that each SETI@home location has a unique color by pressing the Color button and selecting a color you like. This color will be used in the skymap window to mark the position in the sky the work units have been recorded.
Ksetiwatch can start the SETI@home client for you at start-up. Enable this by checking Invoke SETI@home Client at Startup. Similarly, you can tell Ksetiwatch to stop the SETI@home client whenever you close Ksetiwatch by checking Stop SETI@home Client on Exit. This is useful if you are running a multi-user PC, and you don't want to hog the machine with running SETI@home clients while other users are working on it.
Command line arguments for the SETI@home client can conveniently be selected by several checkboxes. You can choose from:
-stop_after_process. If a work_unit.sah file is present, the client processes this work unit and stops after processing is complete. Results are not returned. If the client is started with this option, and there is a completed result.sah file present, the client will first return the results, then pick up a new work unit, process to completion, then exit.
-stop_after_send. Enabling this option causes the client to finish up your current work unit, and to return the result. A new work unit is not downloaded.
-email. Sends an email (to the login email address) on errors. This option is not available for all clients.
-graphics. Generates a data stream for the xsetiathome graphical interface (see README.xsetiathome). This option is not available for all clients.
Additional command line arguments can be passed to the client by entering the desired options in the Command Line Arguments field. See the SETI@home README for details on valid command line arguments.
By default Ksetiwatch logs completed work units automatically. If you prefer not to log completed work units, or you are doing your logging with other programs, you can switch off this feature by unchecking Enable logging of work units. Starting with version 2.2.0, there is a new feature that allows you to redirect the log files to directories other than the default folder of the location. Enable this by checking Redirect Log Files to:. Of course, you will have to enter the new log directory in the edit box below or select a directory via the browse button. This feature is especially useful if you don't have write permission in the default folder (maybe on a remote computer), or you want to collect the logs of many different SETI@home locations in one big log file.
Clicking the OK button saves all entries to disk and closes the dialog. All settings are reloaded automatically whenever you restart Ksetiwatch. Clicking Cancel discards all changes made in this dialog window.