Re: Announce: X11 for Mac OS X Beta 2 is available
Re: Announce: X11 for Mac OS X Beta 2 is available
- Subject: Re: Announce: X11 for Mac OS X Beta 2 is available
- From: Chris Devers <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 18:28:07 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Eric Fielding wrote:
> Aaack! I just downloaded the new beta and installed it on top of my
> previous beta and now I get "twm" for a window manager. I don't have an
> ~/.xinitrc file so I wonder what is happening?
What's happening here is that X11.app now reads global default config from
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, which includes the TWM window manager, a clock,
and several xterms. If you aren't happy with this arrangement, either edit
this file (you need root priviliges to do this, so use sudo: "sudo vim
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc" or similar) or, preferably, copy it to your home
directory & edit that copy:
cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc
vim ~/.xinitrc
Suggested change to your .xinitrc -- comment our the twm line, and replace
it with one to quartz-wm. After doing so, I ended up with these lines:
#twm &
quartz-wm &
Changes like this should address some or all of your problems. Give it a
try and see if things get better after you do that.
--
Chris Devers email@hidden
beta, adj.
(Of a software version) the one that ships.
-- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
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