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X11 won't start after me making a mess of things....

I am not sure what I did, but recently X11 stopped wanting to start with its ugly but comfortable xterm window advertising its presence in the left of my screen.

Attempting to launch things in a terminal window with the command "xterm" indicates "DISPLAY not set".

I have attempted to remove /Applications/Utilities/X11.app, all of /usr/X11, and any plist files I can find with org.x in the name. I then have attempted to reinstall X11 from the Leopard install disk. Clicking on the icon /Applications/Utilities/X11.app yields nothing, and "xterm" in a terminal again proclaims "DISPLAY not set". I have attempted to logout then back in to reset things, but to no avail.

Any way I can rescue this mess without doing a complete reinstall of Leopard? That is feasible, but with backing up my files and then reinstalling all my software later, the enterprise takes hours...

many thanks,

Les
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