re: X11 crashes on Mac under all conditions
re: X11 crashes on Mac under all conditions
- Subject: re: X11 crashes on Mac under all conditions
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:05:50 -0400 (EDT)
> PROBLEM #1: X11 doesn't recognize any startup files.
>
> I've now had poor success figuring out how to get X11 to work properly
> on 2 different Macs running OS 10.3.5. I have it running ok on a 3rd
> Mac. The key difference so far is that the Mac that has X11 working
> has /bin/tcsh as it's default shell. The other 2 Macs have /bin/bash
> as the shell. The key problem is that on the Macs that are running
> /bin/bash there appears to be no file that it recognizes as a startup
> file.
> I've tried tried the following files:
>
> .xinitrc, .cshrc, .login, .profile, .bash_profile, .bash_login,
> .tcshrc and none of them are read.
Yes, that's true, and if you read the INVOCATION section of the bash(1) man
page, you'll see that this is documented. What I do is this:
[~/.MacOSX/environment.plist]
{
BASH_ENV = "~/.bashrc";
}
- Richard
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