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Re: X11 and the new powerbook

Roger Midmore wrote: 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Roger Midmore wrote:


I've installed  the XFree86 release on my new powerbook,
but when I run it from the
console I get these error messages.

tcsh: userclientrc=/Users/roger/.xinitrc: Command not found.
[] 
I thought that X didn't need to be manually configured with darwin and OS
X. Will configuring X like a linux or NetBSD distro work with OS X?


No. You need to do a different kind of manual configuration:

I take it you are running "startx" from the command line? Have a look at the file /usr/X11R6/bin/startx, in particular its first line. If this line starts with "#pragma..." remove it so that the new first line starts with "#!/bin/sh".

This wrong first line comes from a bug in Apple's cpp that was used for compiling the X11 version you are using. Apple's own X11 had these buggy files for 7 months until the 10.3.4 upgrade although they knew about the problem even before Jaguar was released. Geeks like you who run startx from the command line and use tcsh as their login shell are not Apple's favorite customers :-)

--
Martin

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