Re: What x?
Re: What x?
- Subject: Re: What x?
- From: "Paul N. Schatz" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 20:54:02 -0500
Martin, thanks for the reply. The entries in my ~/.xinitrc
file besides the standard things are:
xterm & #This works
#/usr/X11R6/bin/quartz-wm #THIS WORKS!
/Users/pnschatz/usr/local/X11/bin/fvwm2 #This works
I switch between the two window managers by commenting and
un-commenting. fvwm2 was the active one when I did my 'startx' in
the terminal. But the xterm window that came up was not being run by
fvwm2. So I am still a bit puzzled.
There was also one curious thing that occurred after my last
message. After my 'startx' experiment in the terminal, I could no
longer run X11.app using either of the window managers shown above.
X11.app would open momentarily and then immediately close. Doing a
restart (but a logout was not good enough), I could then run X11.app
again. (I'm using 10.2.4.)
This all seems kind of strange. Perhaps someone else would
be willing to try 'startx' in the Terminal without X11.app open?
Paul
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At 10:23 PM +0100 3/2/03, Martin Costabel wrote
Paul N. Schatz wrote:
With X11 (version 0.2) not open, I type in a terminal window:
'startx'; an X Window system opens. It is not X11; it is simply
designated 'x' in the menu bar. According to the terminal, it is
"XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System." I have not installed
XDarwin
Apple's X11 *is* xfree86-4.2.1 with some Apple sauce on top. 95% of
it are some version of xfree86. Only the X server proper and the
window manager are Apple-specific. Less than 5MB out of 100MB.
on my system (OS 10.2.4). So am I seeing an X Window system
already built into the operating system? In any event, what window
manager is it using? Can I find out by entering an appropriate
command in the X Window? I guess it is twm?
This depends on your .xinitrc and if you don't have one, on the
system /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc. If you have the version of
the latter that ends with "exec quartz-wm", then you might not have
any window manager running, because quartz-wm will probably crash.
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Martin
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