Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- Subject: Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:26:17 GMT
> I think it's because people (including me!) don't know how to set it up
> properly. I always use Terminal.app for text things but if I decide I
> want to have a quick game of xgalaga, I run X11.app and type xgalaga &
> in an xterm window. If I type it in Terminal.app it just says Cannot
> open diplay "(null)". So I need to get an understanding of how to fix
> that but haven't worked it out yet... I think if someone posted a good
> paragraph on how to make a program running in Terminal.app call an X11
> window for a graphical display, then everyone would use Terminal.app
> and not xterm. Well FWIW ... that's what I reckon anyway :)
Just put this in your .login or your .tcshrc file:
if (! $?DISPLAY) then
setenv DISPLAY :0.0
endif
J. Mckeown
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