Macports, Gnome & XQuartz
Macports, Gnome & XQuartz
- Subject: Macports, Gnome & XQuartz
- From: "Keith J. Schultz" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:26:01 +0100
Hi All,
I am trying to get gnome running via Macports and have run into some anoying
problems.
I am running on a MacBook Pro with OSX 10.6.5, Macports uptodate, and gnome sucessfully, Xquartz 2.5.3
installed.
According to the wiki I should be able to start gnome with gnome-session in the Terminal.
What I get is :
Failed to start message bus: launch_msg("CheckIn") IPC failure: Operation not permitted
EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon
Some how a security problem or permissions problem ! Any Ideas?
Well I tried the different suggestions in the Wiki to no avail ~/.xinitrc.d scripts
Here an example:
# make the freedesktop menu entries work
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/local/share
export XDG_DATA_HOME=/opt/local/share
export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/opt/local/etc/xdg
# enable sound
export ESPEAKER=localhost
# use GNOME's window manager
exec metacity &
# start GNOME
exec gnome-session
According to the system log metacity and gnome-session is not being found!
I just tried:
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/local/share
export XDG_DATA_HOME=/opt/local/share
export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/opt/local/etc/xdg
Started xterm &. Checking the Enviorment XDG... are not set!
So I put in echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS > test.out
in the system log the echo line is mentioned with a permission denied notice! What gives.
I am not X-savvy. Can someone help? Could someone explain the difference between using .xinitrc and the .xinitrc.d
scripts or at least point me to some comprehensive documentation.
It does seem to me that the script do not export variables. I know that the xterm inherits from my terminal shell variables if they are set in the .profile.
Aliases are not passed. How would I get them set in X? using a script does not work.
Should I abandon lauchd?
Thanx in advance. I would be glad to offer more details, excerpts from logs files etc..
regards
Keith
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