Re: Getting blank windows when using X11 applications

Subject: Re: Getting blank windows when using X11 applications
From: Sebastian Hahn <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:09:19 +0100
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On Feb 29, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:

+ Sebastian Hahn <email@hidden>:

Hi, thanks for your input. I can run both /usr/X11/bin/xterm and
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm, but when I do so, X11 opens and the window is
blank (no prompt or anything).


Hmm.  I have no idea why that happens.  And it is clearly the more
serious of your problems ...

I have neither a ~/.bash_profile nor a ~/.bashrc, but I do have a
~/.profile which contains "export
PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH".


Okay, that's harmless.

echo $PATH gives: /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/ usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc- apple-darwin-current

Does that point to where the error might be?


Makes me wonder if your teTeX installation has messed with
/etc/profile in a bad way?  The default /etc/profile contains

if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
       eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
fi

and path_helper will, among other things, look in /etc/paths.d/ where
it should find at least one file named X11, with contents
"/usr/X11/bin" (without quotes), which will then be added to the PATH
variable that path_helper builds.  Is it different on your machine?

- Harald

Yes, it's quite different! It contains:

# System-wide .profile for sh(1)

PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin"
export PATH

if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then [ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc fi ## setloginpath added /usr/local/bin start at Thu May 24 00:52:54 CEST 2007 ## Do not remove the previous line if [ `whoami` != "root" ] then PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin" export PATH fi ## Do not remove the next line ## setloginpath added /usr/local/bin end at Thu May 24 00:52:54 CEST 2007 ## TeX added /usr/texbin start at Thu May 24 00:52:54 CEST 2007 ## Do not remove the previous line if [ `whoami` != "root" ] then PATH="$PATH:/usr/texbin" export PATH fi ## Do not remove the next line ## TeX added /usr/texbin end at Thu May 24 00:52:54 CEST 2007 ## TeX modifications start at Wed Dec 19 20:54:22 CET 2007 ## Do not remove the previous line if [ `whoami` != "root" ] then PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current" export PATH fi ## Do not remove the next line ## TeX modifications end at Wed Dec 19 20:54:22 CET 2007

X11 used to work after I installed Tiger, but maybe it's incompatible with Leopard?

Thanks
Sebastian

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