Using download queues and schedulers

2018-04-01T09:36:07.024000Z

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.
Using the queue
Whenever the "NEW DOWNLOAD" dialog appears, goto "MORE"/"Download Later" and select you queue name.
Note: if you are scheduling, DO NOT start the queue manually, as this will start the download immediately.

How to install XDM on any Linux distribution

2018-03-14T15:09:30.966000Z

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If you have any outdated version installed already, please remove them completely.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:

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 )
Open terminal and switch to the directory using cd ~/Downloads
Now type tar xvf xdm-2018-x64.tar.xz or tar xvf xdm-2018-x64.tar.xz
Threre should a file named install.sh created inside the folder now
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 )
Type sudo ./install.sh or su -C ./install.sh
After installation is done then start XDM from start menu.

Generate log for troubleshooting

2018-03-11T12:31:34.143000Z

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

On Linux:
1. Open terminal
2. type cd /opt/xdman
3. jre/bin/java -jar xdman.jar

On Mac OS X:
1. Open terminal from Applications->Utilities
2. Type cd /Applications/xdm.app/Contents/MacOS/
3. jre/bin/java -jar xdman.jar

How to test translation files

2018-02-09T13:41:14.558000Z

Download english language file from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdman/files/lang/en.txt/download
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 )
Save the file with UTF-8 encoding
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)
Rename the file xdman.zip
Open the file in any archiver, and extract the lang folder from the zip file
Put your new translation file inside.
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)
Save the map file in UTF-8 option.
Now add the lang folder back to the zip file.
Rename the zip file back to the jar extension.
Exit XDM from XDM menu File->Exit
Copy the file back into XDM installation folder
Start XDM and goto Tools->Language and select your language.
Restart XDM.
Check each screen and see all text are properly visible.

Install components manually

2018-02-07T22:40:25.375000Z

Download component file manually.
Url for windows: http://xdman.sourceforge.net/components/win.zip.xz
32 bit linux: http://xdman.sourceforge.net/components/linux86.zip.xz
64 bit linux: http://xdman.sourceforge.net/components/linux64.zip.xz
Mac os X: http://xdman.sourceforge.net/components/mac.zip.xz
Extract the files inside the zip (there should be files like ffmpeg )
On windows type ctrl+r to open run dialog. type %USERPROFILE%.xdman
On linux and mac open your home directory. since .xdman is a hidden directory, please make sure hidden files are shown.
copy the files to this directory
exit xdm and start again. it should not show any message of component installation

XDM integration with Microsoft Edge

2018-01-17T22:02:53.248000Z

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.**

It should contain a folder named xdm_edge
Open Edge browser
In address bar type about:flags
Select ‘Enable extension developer features’ checkbox under ‘Developer Settings’
Restart Edge browser for the changes to apply.
Click on … more menu and select ‘Extensions’
Click ‘Load extension’, browse and navigate to xdm_edge folder, which was extracted from the zip file in step 2, and click ‘Select Folder’
XDM extension will be installed and activated. Click on the extension to see its status (On or Off) and permissions given to it.
Turn on the option to display on address bar

11. If you see a cross icon in XDM browser monitor icon (even if XDM is running), then follow below steps:

Goto Windows start menu, and type CMD.
Right click on CMD in start menu, and select 'Run as administrator'
Type/Paste the command in cmd : CheckNetIsolation LoopbackExempt -a -n="Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe"
Press Enter. Now XDM icon should turn to blue.
Play a video in Youtube to test if 'Download Video' panel is appearing, or try downloading a file, and check if XDM is capturing downloads.

Please note each time you start Edge browser, a notification will popup to Turn on the extension, please click 'Turn on anyway

I noticed one strange behavior, that even after clicking 'Turn on anyway', extension is not enabled!

If you face such issue follow below steps:
1. In Edge browser, click on the ... and select 'Extensions'
2. Select XDM browser monitor and scroll down.
3. Click reload extension, to get it work.

Java Desktop App can be fast and good looking

2015-09-14T10:04:22.674000Z

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

Why use XDM while there are several other download managers available

2013-12-14T03:16:17.829000Z

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.

XDM takes a different approach to overcome this problem.
It uses advanced browser integration, instead of using extension for each browser.

ii. Download speed:
XDM uses multiple segments per download to increase download speed.
XDM intelligently determines the number of segments required for the download, depending on the speed/bandwidth/capability of the server, Re-uses segments to minimize the creation of new connections, and maintains the maximum number of segments during the whole download process to keep the download speed at its maximum level.

iii. Ability to capture videos from ANY website using ANY browser. Since XDM does not depend on the browser plugin/extension, it can work with any browser (advanced browser integration).
All that is needed is to play the video in the browser and XDM will capture it.

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