Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up
Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up
- Subject: Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up
- From: "B. Ludvigsen" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:46:27 +0100
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 04:21:42PM -0600, Bob Greschke wrote:
>
>
> ??? How will they select which program/server they want to connect
> to? They don't run anything on their Mac except start X11 and select
> a menu item which ssh'es them into another machine/account where the
> 'inventory system', or whatever, resides. Are we all talking about
> the same thing?
I suspect we are not. Not all of us at least. :-)
> Just clicking on the X11 icon doesn't get them anywhere. It just
> starts X11 and now brings up an xterm which they have no use for, and
> in whose Applications menu I can no longer put commands like ssh -X -
> Y email@hidden -OR- xterm -geometry 80x50+100+100 -
> rightbar -sb -bg "black" -fg "yellow" -cr "orange" -rv -fa Monaco -fs
> 13 -e ssh -Y email@hidden? How do I replace that
> functionality? It's gone or hiding somewhere. I'm not going to type
> all of that stuff every time I want to do something, and having a
> bunch of scripts/icons laying around to run each variation of the ssh
> command to get into different machines is pretty silly.
I have done the following hack to get around that problem:
- rename the Leopard /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
- copy the Tiger flavors of xterm and uxterm to /usr/X11R6/bin/ from
a machine still running Tiger.
- put your startup strings into aliases in your .bashrc file or into
executable script files somewhere handy like /usr/local/bin (The
script files can be added to X11'a "Application" menu like
before. For example a "xssh" in /usr/local/bin/ looks like this:
uxterm -geometry 80x25+50+285 -bg lightgray -sb -sl 500 -fg black
-title $1 -e ssh -Y $1 & )
- you still have the crazy Spaces logic to contend with, but
slecting the right xterm window, if you have several, with
<cmd>+arrow works around it.
X11 will start up with a bare bones xterm which you can kill out of
the way once you have the others going.
I'm going to remove this Leopard X11 tomorrow and install the Tiger
version and will report the result. By the way, when installing
Leopard X11 now installs by default. All you have to do is deselect
before installing.
- Børre
> Bob
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