The .openra folder in your home directory will be hidden in Nautilus (the file browser) by default because of the '.' prefix (rather than a file attribute for hidden items, *nix uses the '.' at the start of a filename to indicate a hidden file or folder). Try pressing Ctrl+H and you should be able to see all the hidden folders.
Thanks for the help. Looks like an unsupported gpu...
execption.log as follows...
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.InvalidProgramException: Unsupported GPU. See graphics.log for details.
at OpenRA.Renderer.Glsl.GraphicsDevice..ctor (Int32 width, Int32 height, WindowMode window, Boolean vsync) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoCMethod:InternalInvoke (object,object[],System.Exception&)
at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo.Invoke (System.Object[] parameters) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at OpenRA.Graphics.Renderer.CreateDevice (System.Reflection.Assembly rendererDll, Int32 width, Int32 height, WindowMode window, Boolean vsync) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at OpenRA.Graphics.Renderer.Initialize (WindowMode windowMode) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at OpenRA.Game.Initialize (OpenRA.Arguments args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at OpenRA.Program.Run (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at OpenRA.Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
According to HP site for drivers, the intel graphic driver that's for my computer for when running vista is for Intel 945GM and 940GML chips. Of course I'm running Ubuntu.
It look like your driver doesn't provide fragment shader support. You can work around this by installing the nvidia-cg-toolkit package (it works with all graphics cards) and using our Cg renderer. You can activate this by putting the attached settings.yaml file in ~/.openra/ folder.