Re: X11 & Gimp
Re: X11 & Gimp
- Subject: Re: X11 & Gimp
- From: Alain Borel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:04:39 -0600 (CST)
On 06-Mar-2003 Max Waterman wrote:
> [blighty-1:~] maxw% sudo find / -name \*xinit\* | xargs fgrep -i gimp
> fgrep: /private/etc/X11/xinit: Is a directory
> /private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc:exec gimp
> fgrep: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit: Is a directory
> [blighty-1:~] maxw%
>
> Taking out that line seemed to fix it.
Yep. The global xinitrc was indeed guilty in your case...
> Quite how it got there in the first place, I'm not sure.
Indeed. xinitrc is definitely not the place to start rather heavy applications
such as the GIMP. Furthermore, it would also get started when root launches X,
which is _wrong_ IMHO.
> I blame an install of OroborOSX...
>
> Thanks!
Glad I could help!
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E-Mail: Alain Borel <email@hidden>
Date: 06-Mar-2003 Time: 15:02:04
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