Re: Continuing saga of missing X-window
Re: Continuing saga of missing X-window
- Subject: Re: Continuing saga of missing X-window
- From: Don MacQueen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:57:34 -0700
At 3:54 PM +0000 9/11/03, email@hidden wrote:
Thanks to Mothra; my window is labled xterm and is a command line
terminal. No other window
open.
If I remember correctly, the default installation of Apple's X11
includes having a single xterm window start up, and nothing else. So
that sounds normal. Whether or not it's normal, it is appropriate.
Thanks to Joe Davidson: I do have an xinitrc file in
/etc/X121/xinit. What do I do with it?
I hope that's a typo; it should be /etc/X11/xinit.
In general you should not have to do anything with the file
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.
You should, however, look at what's in it, for example by typing the command
cat /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
You should see quartz-wm mentioned near the end, I think.
You can customize some aspects of your installation of X windows by
copying xinitrc to your home directory, where it should be named
".xinitrc" (without the quotes), and then editing it.
cp -p /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc
If you do that, then X windows uses your .xinitrc when it starts up,
instead of the system's /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
Thanks to Joe Koski: Put xcalc, xclock and oclock in Xapplications.
They all open in their own little
window on my Mac desktop. Put xquartz in Xapplictions and it
attempts to open (brief flash of a
file on dock) and then nothing. I did locate this: ls -a -F
/usr/X11R6/bin/quartz-wm* which if I
read correctly means quartz-wm is an exec file. but how to open?
It should be executed automatically when you click on the X11 icon in the Dock.
Sorry for my slow responce back. messed up my mail app and couldn't
receive mail last night.
I am isolated and only have "Unix for MacOS" and O'Reillys's "Unix
PowerTools" as my learning
guides. And all the fine people on the net.
Thanks god, I have a mind to learn with!
Mick Beale
Hope this helps.
-Don
--
--------------------------------------
Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA, USA
--------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
x11-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/x11-users
X11 for Mac OS X FAQ: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1232.html
Report issues, request features, feedback: http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.