Re: Horrible X11 Problems on OS X (iBook)
Re: Horrible X11 Problems on OS X (iBook)
- Subject: Re: Horrible X11 Problems on OS X (iBook)
- From: Allen Bennettt <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:34:11 -0500
The default shell would be bash what happens when you are in tcsh. Is
your account an administrator account? What happens when you type
startx in a regular terminal window? How much ram do you have?
to answer your question below
If you type xterm in a terminal.app window it will launch an xterm if
X11 is open
On Dec 22, 2004, at 8:30 AM, Stephen Sebeny wrote:
Some of the questions you should answer:
- How do you start X11?
Normally just by double-clicking the X11.app icon. Although I have
tried
launching by typing open-x11 in the Terminal, as well as using the
script at
the URL below.
http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/mystuff/zsh/Library/init/zsh/
local-fu
nctions/open-x11
- Do you have a ~/.xinitrc file and what does it contain?
At the moment I do, it was generated by the following script which
I
believe copies the general system one and just comments out a couple
lines.
http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/mystuff/zsh/Library/init/zsh/
local-fu
nctions/customize_x11
Although I believe the initial set-up (after clean install) is
without a
.xinitrc file -- so I have definitely tried that configuration as well.
- 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?
Normally the xterm just pops up when I open X11.app. (Except it
doesn't
any more because the that line is commented out at the end of the
~/.xinitrc
file). I have also tried another xterm window be selecting it from the
"Applications" menu in X11.app, and the same problems occur. I don't
know
how to open an xterm (X11) from the Terminal (non-X11) so I haven't
done
that. The xterm I see appears to be the same one with or without the
presence of the ~/.xinitrc file. In everything I've tried I continue to
observe the same problem.
- What is your shell?
bash
- What do you have in your shell startup scripts?
Initially after a clean install, nothing. At the moment only the
following lines:
export PS1="[\u@\h:\w]\$ "
PATH=${PATH}:/Users/ssebeny/bin
export PATH
- Do you have any other self-made startup scripts, like
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist?
No, I haven't intentionally created any, so I don't believe I have
any.
- Do you see a shell prompt in your xterm where you type your
commands?
- What exactly do you see there?
(Something like this, I'm not copying & pasting the exact prompt since
I'm
on a different machine.)
Stephen-Sebeny's-Computer:~ ssebeny$ ls
Stephen-Sebeny's-Computer:~ ssebeny$
The problem is that there is no output seen from the ls command.
Even a
command like sleep 60, will immediately produce a new prompt without
waiting
60 seconds.
Hopefully this will give someone an idea. Thanks!
-----
Stephen M. Sebeny
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