I'm pretty sure that asterisks were some leftover formatting from some wiki probably (they are gone from the source site, you cited), and quotes were there just to emphasize the name...

Why it worked? - Well, double quotes are valid character in filename, you just need to be extra careful when operating on them, to properly escape. Since asterisks were not escaped, I guess, what happened, was that they were probably stripped by the installation script and so you end up with bin" (thing is, asterisks can also be used in filename, but I guess there was at least some sanitization on that input, pity, that it didn't left just a-zA-Z0-9_-. - rarely will you see anything else).

Anyway, I think, you should reinstall it if you want to be sure not to have any troubles running application from that path.

TLDR; it worked, because, in essence, there was no error...

I tried a variety of things but the one thing that seemed to work best is by making my own executable script and replacing the desktop shortcut with it.

So open a text editor/nano/vi/etc file and name it thinkorswim2 (or whatever you want). In that put the following:

#!/bin/sh

export PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/:$PATH
exec  /home/user/thinkorswim/thinkorswim "$@"

Double check and make sure that the export path does match up on your system by following it. It just goes to the directory of the java executable.

If you followed the install script defaults then change user to be your home directory username. It installed to this directory by default for my version.

Now make that script executable. If you aren't used to the terminal than right click -> properties -> permissions -> allow executing file as program (or similar).

If your like me you want the same icon too so (in mint cinnamon) go to the basic tab in properties. Click the icon. Click browse and go to "/home/user/thinkorswim" then press ctrl + H while browsing to reveal hidden folders. go into "install4j" and pick "thinkorswim.png"

Hopefully this saves someone time in the future.

I'm running it on Arch. I installed 'jre8-openjdk' and set to default then used the thinkorswim install script. It installed to '~/thinkorswim' and it's been working pretty well (if you don't count last week ;).

What happens when you try to relaunch? Anything in syslog/jurnalctl?

Update: I managed to somehow get it working. It's working on Debian 12 (but not Ubuntu, Void Linux, NixOS).

Do you have have Java 11 openjdk installed?

It does work on Linux! I'm also using Pop_OS to run it. I'm not exactly sure why you're having that issue though. Make sure you're following the correct instructions on the Linux download page for thinkorswim.

You must use Zulu OpenJDK as it says on their site or at least a similar up-to-date Java VM.

I think by default the application icon is pushed to the desktop. If you right click the desktop icon and open file location, you can send it file to /usr/share/applications and it should now show in the application launcher.

Yes/No… the issue isn’t RAM… the issue is the stupid coding team hasn’t released an Apple Silicon version of TOS!

There’s a workaround though.

You have to run TOS from the command line, and it will launch the native Java version, but some features can’t be run.

On my m1 MacBook I keep 2 versions open, the command line one for trading and the intel version for book map.

But it’s stupid. The developers are terribly lazy for not updating the Mac version. No other software I one hasn’t been updated.