Re: Panther X11 problems
Re: Panther X11 problems
- Subject: Re: Panther X11 problems
- From: Robert C Burton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:23:12 -0800
Thanks John that works.
Apparently my path has gotten changed by the new install.
On Oct 30, 2003, at 9:25 PM, John Hurst wrote:
> On 31 Oct 2003, at 14:17, Robert C Burton wrote:
>
>> Ever since I installed Panther and the new X11 I have had some
>> peculiar problems, none of which existed in 10.2.8.
>> I will describe them as best I can and if anyone can confirm them
>> and/or offer solution it would be greatly appreciated:
>> 1. Well, I just tried to reproduce the errors I was most concerned
>> about and they are no longer reproducible??
>> They were that my "Gimp" and "Start Open Office" applescripts were
>> not working. In fact the Start Open Office script had caused X11 to
>> become hung up in such a way that it could not be forced to quit and
>> I ended up having to turn off power to restart. I even wrote a simple
>> script "tell application "X11" activate end tell" and got the error -
>> application is not running? I will keep working to find out what was
>> happening! They are working perfectly now
>> 2. The second problem is that "man" is giving me an error message in
>> both X11 and Terminal it returns "man: illegal option --C" then
>> proceeds to show the correct usage. This occurs with every attempt to
>> use man even man ls.
>
> I had this one in 10.2.6, actually. Are you running fink? If so, try
> "/usr/bin/man" instead of just "man". I found that my default path
> was to /sw/bin/man, which seemed to be broken. The apple one worked
> correctly.
>
>> Any thoughts?
>
>
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