Re: Newbie needs some guidance.
Re: Newbie needs some guidance.
- Subject: Re: Newbie needs some guidance.
- From: Tommy Bollman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:41:54 +0100
Hello.
I am a newbie to X-windows, I want to learn enough to control X-applications on remote machines (on my lan) for starters.
The X man pages are not like all man pages. If anyone of you know about some useful resources for getting the big picture, then I'd be very grateful.
I really feel I need this before I get down to detail with XQuartz on mac os x, which I like.
Thanks
Tommy.
Den 9. mars 2011 kl. 09.59 skrev Tommy Bollman:
> ArggghhhHHH :-)
> I found the full screen mode under preferences ....
>
> I'll read up on X11 until later. It is interesting. The objective is to use it to
> control remote computers with.
>
> Den 8. mars 2011 kl. 23.41 skrev Jeremy Huddleston:
>
>>
>> On Mar 8, 2011, at 10:58, Tommy Bollman wrote:
>>
>>> Hello. I have tried wmii, but it says that another window manager is running:
>>> This is the lines in my $HOME/.xinitrc file:
>>
>> Don't use ~/.xinitrc. Use ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh
>>
>>> exec quartz-wm --only-proxy &
>>
>> Just delete this line because:
>> 1) 'quartz-wm --only-proxy' is a no-op.
>> 2) Don't 'exec' and '&' in the same line. It's bad form.
>>
>>> exec /opt/local/bin/wmii
>>
>>> This is something that may have worked when xrdb was used, but I really don't know how
>>> it should be done now.
>>
>> This never worked for setting up xrdb because you're never running xrdb in .xinitrc. This is the main reason that I suggest not using ~/.xinitrc and instead setting up the WM in ~/.xinitrc.d. Do the following:
>>
>> rm ~/.xinitrc
>> mkdir ~/.xinitrc.d
>> echo "USERWM=opt/local/bin/wmii" > ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh
>> chmod 755 ~/.xinitrc.d/99-wm.sh
>>
>> Then relaunch XQuartz.app
>>
>>> The other thing I wonder about is in the console line from below; I surmise XFree86_VT is an env variable. and wonders what value
>>> it should be given.
>>>
>>> 08.03.11 19.50.25 /opt/X11/bin/xinit: XFree86_VT property unexpectedly has 0 items instead of 1 Notice org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[73982]
>>
>> No, that has nothing to do with XQuartz. It's an Xorg issue. I haven't looked into it further:
>> http://tinderbox.freedesktop.org/builds/2010-11-05-0017/logs/startup-test/
>>
>>> If anybody knows about something that works, please let me know. I'm using the latest version of quartz-wm.
>>
>> Do you mean XQuartz rather than quartz-wm here? You're obviously trying to use wmii instead of quartz-wm...
>>
>>
>>
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
> Tommy Bollman
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