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Re: Horrible X11 Problems on OS X (iBook)
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Re: Horrible X11 Problems on OS X (iBook)


  • Subject: Re: Horrible X11 Problems on OS X (iBook)
  • From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:56:54 +0100

Stephen Sebeny wrote:
Hi all,

    What follows is my plea for help regarding getting X11 to work properly
on my iBook. Sorry its such a long message

For all the long story, you don't really explain what you are doing when you get the unexpected behavior, and what you are actually observing. Details please!


Some of the questions you should answer:

- How do you start X11?
- Do you have a ~/.xinitrc file and what does it contain?
- How do you start the xterm in which you observe the problem: From the ~/.xinitrc file, from the X11 Applications menu, from the command line in a Terminal.app window, is it the default xterm window that you get without ~/.xinitrc script? If you try one of the other methods, do you get the same result?
- What is your shell?
- What do you have in your shell startup scripts?
- Do you have any other self-made startup scripts, like ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist?
- Do you see a shell prompt in your xterm where you type your commands?
- What exactly do you see there?


I think it is far more probable that you have some bad configuration or some bad custom startup script than that there is a problem with the installation of OSX or of X11.

--
Martin



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