Re: Getting blank windows when using X11 applications
Re: Getting blank windows when using X11 applications
- Subject: Re: Getting blank windows when using X11 applications
- From: Sebastian Hahn <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:59:07 +0100
On Feb 29, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
+ Sebastian Hahn <email@hidden>:
When I go to terminal and type xterm, it teills me "-bash: xterm:
command not found". I replaced my X11 with the one from the download
link, but in the Console log I don't get any new errors, just the
messages I already posted.
Unless something went quite wrong with your installation, xterm should
exist. Can you run it as /usr/X11/bin/xterm or as
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm ? If so (which I expect), the problem lies with
your PATH environment variable: It should contain /usr/X11/bin. Are
you setting PATH yourself, in either ~/.bash_profile or in ~/.bashrc?
What is the result of running echo $PATH ?
- Harald
Hi, thanks for your input. I can run both /usr/X11/bin/xterm and /usr/
X11R6/bin/xterm, but when I do so, X11 opens and the window is blank
(no prompt or anything). I have neither a ~/.bash_profile nor a
~/.bashrc, but I do have a ~/.profile which contains "export PATH=/opt/
local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH" (for MacPorts, which I installed
after the problems occured to test a local X11 application. I did not
set the $DISPLAY variable there though).
echo $PATH gives:
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/
sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-
darwin-current
Does that point to where the error might be?
Thanks!
Sebastian
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