Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- Subject: Re: Xterm vs Terminal.app
- From: "David Orlovich" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:34:20 +1300
gee that was easy! Thanks! With OS X I think there are millions of
novice superusers and sysadmins out there that need simple help like
that. Cheers! David.
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 09:26 AM, email@hidden wrote:
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
Dr David Orlovich
Department of Botany,
The University of Otago,
P.O. Box 56,
Dunedin,
New Zealand.
Phone +64 3 479 9060
Fax +64 3 479 7583
email@hidden
email@hidden
http://www.botany.otago.ac.nz/
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