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• ** Create a new queue**
  If you are fine with default queue then this step is not required.
  To create a new queue
  1. Goto XDM settings/Scheduler settings
  2. Click on the New button
  3. New queue will be created. If you want to change your queue name, enter any name below and click the save button above.
  4. If you want to schedule the queue, provide the scheduler settings below!
  5. Now queue creation is done, press the back button to close the settings page.... read more

This article describes how to install XDM on any linux distribution.
If you have any outdated version installed already, please remove them completely.
Also remove any directory named xdman under /opt ( open terminal and type rm -rf /opt/xdman and restart your computer )

Installation steps:

1. Download the installation archive from: http://xdman.sourceforge.net/#downloads
   2. Lets asume you have downloaded the file in your download folder. (~/Downloads) ( make sure the file name after download is xdm-2018-x64.tar.xz or xdm-2018-x86.tar.xz, not xdm-2018-x86.tar(1).xz etc )
2. Open terminal and switch to the directory using cd ~/Downloads
3. Now type tar xvf xdm-2018-x64.tar.xz or tar xvf xdm-2018-x64.tar.xz
4. Threre should a file named install.sh created inside the folder now
5. Now you will need to be root user to start installation ( use sudo if you are using ubuntu/debian/mint/solus/elementary etc, and su -C for SUSE, manjaro, fedora etc )
6. Type sudo ./install.sh or su -C ./install.sh
7. After installation is done then start XDM from start menu.

Befor doing these steps you should exit XDM if its already running. To exit XDM goto File->Exit from XDM window.

If you are on Windows:
1. Open command prompt from the start menu (type cmd to search in start menu)
2. After command prompt opens, type C: and press Enter
3. Then type cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\XDM" and press Enter.
4. If it shows error like folder does not exists then type cd "C:\Programs Files\XDM"
5. Now type "jre\bin\java" -jar xdman.jar... read more

1. Download english language file from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdman/files/lang/en.txt/download
2. Make changes to the file. Replace the engilsh text with your language text and save it with your languages locale code as filename ( like en for english, de for german )
3. Save the file with UTF-8 encoding
4. To Test it, goto XDM installation folder and copy xdman.jar to your Desktop or any other folder (on windows it should be in a folder named XDM in program files, on linux it should /opt/xdman, on mac os x its in Applications directory)
5. Rename the file xdman.zip
6. Open the file in any archiver, and extract the lang folder from the zip file
7. Put your new translation file inside.
8. Edit the map file. To make an entry put your file name without .txt extension along with the language name in english and your language, like de=German(Deutsch)
9. Save the map file in UTF-8 option.
10. Now add the lang folder back to the zip file.
11. Rename the zip file back to the jar extension.
12. Exit XDM from XDM menu File->Exit
13. Copy the file back into XDM installation folder
14. Start XDM and goto Tools->Language and select your language.
15. Restart XDM.
16. Check each screen and see all text are properly visible.

1. Download component file manually.
2. Url for windows: http://xdman.sourceforge.net/components/win.zip.xz
3. 32 bit linux: http://xdman.sourceforge.net/components/linux86.zip.xz
4. 64 bit linux: http://xdman.sourceforge.net/components/linux64.zip.xz

5. Mac os X: http://xdman.sourceforge.net/components/mac.zip.xz

6. Extract the files inside the zip (there should be files like ffmpeg )

7. On windows type ctrl+r to open run dialog. type %USERPROFILE%.xdman
8. On linux and mac open your home directory. since .xdman is a hidden directory, please make sure hidden files are shown.
9. copy the files to this directory
   exit xdm and start again. it should not show any message of component installation

XDM 2018 now can be integrated with MS Edge.

Please follow this guide:
Download a zip file containing the browser extension from http://xdman.sourceforge.net/xdm_edge.zip and unzip.**

1. It should contain a folder named xdm_edge

2. Open Edge browser

3. In address bar type about:flags

4. Select ‘Enable extension developer features’ checkbox under ‘Developer Settings’
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If designed properly Java application can be fast and attractive.
Popular belief is all Java apps are slow and ugly, but with little effort they can be made attractive too.
Just have a look on XDM 2015 Linux/OS X version

i. Browser Integration:
Most of the other download managers uses browser plugins (extensions to be more accurate) to integrate with the browser.
The extension gets installed on the browser and uses browsers api to monitor and capture downloads.
Problems are:
a. For each browser need an extension written for it.
b. Whenever a new version of the browser is released with major changes the extension may become incompatible with the browser.
c. Download managers can provide extensions for only a handful popular browsers only.... read more