Matthew Leonhardt wrote:
[]
A very helpful FAQ.
I'm sure Alex will appreciate.
Your current problem is also covered in the FAQ, although you might not
have noticed the crucial lines in all those error messages:
[]
mkdir ./html
cd ./html gtkdoc-mkhtml atk ../atk-docs.sgml
Unknown option: n
Matthew Leonhardt wrote:
Hello all,
I am new to fink, and having some issues. I don't know if there's a
mailing list archive anywhere, but please refer me to it, as I'm sure
I'm not the first person to have asked these questions.
The Fink home page has links to the mailing lists,
On 8/5/06, Matthew Leonhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I am new to fink, and having some issues. I don't know if there's a
mailing list archive anywhere, but please refer me to it, as I'm sure
I'm not the first person to have asked these questions.
My goal was to install GnuCash
matz.org wrote:
Thanks Martin!
It worked!
But now i've got another problem.
When i try to start lopster.app (lopster for mac) it tries to start
apple's x11 and since it doesnt find it, lopster doesnt start! It's
like lopster cant see XDarwin presence..
suggestions??
Since I don't know
Title: Re: [Fink-beginners] XDarwin crashes almost
immediately
Alexander:
many thanks for your reply.
I have a file (~/.xinitrc) that is empty and a file
(/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc) whose contents I paste below.
I previously had Apple's X11 running fine, but I could not get
this to work
On Jun 17, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Benjamin Gilbert wrote:Alexander:many thanks for your reply.I have a file (~/.xinitrc) that is empty and a file (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc) whose contents I paste below.I previously had Apple's X11 running fine, but I could not get this to work with subsequent Fink
On Mar 23, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Thomas Chiarappa wrote:
Hallo Everybody,
I was trying (at the beginning it seems succesfully) to install
Xdarwin, but at the application crashed few milliseconds after it was
launched.
I tryied to have a look to all FAQ`s, Tutorials and so on ... but I
have
Title: RE: [Fink-beginners] XDarwin fails to start (was: no subject)
Alexander Hansen wrote:
...
The part that I thought seemed odd was the line
NicNic:~ jcn$ NicNic:~ jcn$ logout
...
Laine Lee wrote:
...
Anyway, when it came back up, I created the .xinitrc with just one line
On Sep 16, 2004, at 3:27 PM, Laine Lee wrote:
Alexander Hansen wrote:
...
The part that I thought seemed odd was the line
NicNic:~ jcn$ NicNic:~ jcn$ logout
...
Laine Lee wrote:
...
Anyway, when it came back up, I created the .xinitrc with just one
line:
exec twm
...
In my case
Title: RE: [Fink-beginners] XDarwin fails to start (was: no subject)
...
The Fink xfree86 package should give you a working XDarwin.app...
But it doesn't, at least not with today's Fink, today's Developer Tools, and today's Panther, according to Jeff Nichols and myself. Jeff told you
On Sep 16, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Laine Lee wrote:
...
The Fink xfree86 package should give you a working XDarwin.app...
But it doesn't, at least not with today's Fink, today's Developer
Tools, and today's Panther, according to Jeff Nichols and myself. Jeff
told you what he did. Here's what I
Try reinstalling xfree86-shlibs then. If you initially installed via
source, you can use fink reinstall xfree86-shlibs. If you used the
binary package, you can do this via sudo apt-get install --reinstall
xfree86-shlibs.
On Jun 15, 2004, at 12:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yes I do have
On Jun 14, 2004, at 5:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ultimately wanted to install emacs, however, i needed to install
xfree86. I went through a lot of problems uninstalling X11, however
finally got the installation to go though, however, when i try to run
XDarwin i get the following crash
On May 13, 2004, at 9:06 PM, Jacob Hamiltion wrote:
every time I try to start XDarwin is turns off right
away. I checked the Fink site it doesn't have the
error I got. I get this error
dyld: xinit file is not a regular file:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmuu.1.dylib (can't possibly be a
library)
Jacob Hamiltion wrote:
every time I try to start XDarwin is turns off right
away. I checked the Fink site it doesn't have the
error I got. I get this error
dyld: xinit file is not a regular file:
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmuu.1.dylib (can't possibly be a
library)
So what is it? Hard to guess what you
On May 7, 2004, at 9:02 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
I've recently installed XDarwin via fink. but have yet to get it to
start up. Whenever I try running startx -- -fullscreen or
startx -- -rootless my cursor will change to an X for about 5
seconds then quit mysteriously. Running the fullscreen
mode
On May 4, 2004, at 4:29 PM, Elvanör wrote:
Having strange problmes with GTK programs, I decided to switch my X11
implementation. I was using Apple's X11; I am now using XDarwon (Xfree
4.4) as installed by fink.
The server launches fine but i can't have any applications launch into
it...
here
On Apr 3, 2004, at 10:22 AM, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
Is this normal? I installed XDarwin on my TiBook, 10.2.6. I am the
root user so I don't get it. How do I change it? How do I define the
Session manager variable?
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
Loading GLX bundle
You installed XFree86, and quartz-wm therefore probably doesn't work
anymore (as you're on Jaguar). Is it even present on your system
still?
Try putting
export KDEWM=kwin
in your .xinitrc to clear out quartz-wm from your old session info (KDE
saves what window manager you were using last)
That's new to me. What happens if you use exec startx?
On Mar 2, 2004, at 12:42 PM, hotmail wrote:
hy
i dont have installed apple x11
i instaled fink and xfree, blackbox and other programs from fink
i go to console to start xdarwin from console and i write startx but he goes to mac os x login
Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Cesar Felce wrote:
I have 10.3 and i'm trying to install XDarwin
I did:
apt-get intsall xfreee86-rootless xfree86-base it end perfect, but when
i start XDarwin it does not execute.
I deleted:
rm -rf /etc/X11 /Applications/XDarwin.app/ /usr/X11R6
And furthermore, xfree86-base and xfree86-rootless don't work on
Panther. You'll need to use the xfree86 package, version 4.3.99.16-2
or later (this one's in the stable tree).
--
Alexander Hansen
Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
On Jan 12, 2004, at 3:56 AM, Martin
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Cesar Felce wrote:
I have 10.3 and i'm trying to install XDarwin
I did:
apt-get intsall xfreee86-rootless xfree86-base it end perfect, but when
i start XDarwin it does not execute.
I deleted:
rm -rf /etc/X11 /Applications/XDarwin.app/ /usr/X11R6
apt-get remove
Marc Stergionis wrote:
I just upgraded to Panther and deleted my old fink install, then
bootstrapped from fink0.6.0 and a couple of WMs like enlightenment,
windowmaker and blackbox-rootless.
When I go to terminal to startx I get
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 49: syntax error near unexpected
This was mentioned on -users. Here's an archive link:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.general/9934
--
Alexander K. Hansen
Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross
I've read Fun with Fink. Have since uninstalled and reinstalled
xfree86 twice. I only succeeded when installing (just like I succeeded
last time) by installing the complete installer from GNU MAC.
Now, however, after numerous attempts, I am unable to add Any
packages. Commander sites a
Last time I tried that I was told the file didn't exist. Tried again
just now as was moved down to a new command line, which I take as
success. We'll how how this effects the litany of new errors I'm
getting (see previous post)
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:25:42 -0400, James Gibbs wrote:
Did you
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 11:58, Greg wrote:
I've read Fun with Fink. Have since uninstalled and reinstalled
xfree86 twice. I only succeeded when installing (just like I succeeded
last time) by installing the complete installer from GNU MAC.
Fair enough.
Now, however, after numerous
I've removed the aforementioned files (as far as I can tell). Now, I'm
getting the following after a few hours scrolling.
Thus the infinite, To be with Apple x11, or Not To Be with Apple x11.
-That- is the question:
---
You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11.
This
The problem is different now: before you were trying to install
system-xfree86, which is appropriate when you have an externally
installed XFree86 installation.
Now you are trying to install the Fink xfree86-base and xfree86-shlibs
packages, which is well and good, but require you to manually
Unix is tough when you're dyslexic (which is why I love GUI's and
aliases.
Below is what happened when I entered fink install system-xfree86 in
xterm. BTW, the first-mentioned errors (the xfree86-base needed to be
installed) happened whenever I tried to install a package, like
bundle-gnome,
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:49, Greg wrote:
Unix is tough when you're dyslexic (which is why I love GUI's and
aliases.
Below is what happened when I entered fink install system-xfree86 in
xterm. BTW, the first-mentioned errors (the xfree86-base needed to be
installed) happened whenever I
Does this request for X11 dependencies happen at the beginning? Just
now, like before, when I entered Fink Install bundle-gnome, that wasn't
one of the options.
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 15:11:02 -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote:
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:49, Greg wrote:
Unix is tough when you're
Yes: it happens, if necessary, before downloading of the sources
starts.
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:23, Greg wrote:
Does this request for X11 dependencies happen at the beginning? Just
now, like before, when I entered Fink Install bundle-gnome, that wasn't
one of the options.
On Mon, 23
Ok, this time I covered all the usual suspects, and this is how it
panned out:
[blueDog:~] greghyde% sudo rm -rf /sw
Password:
[blueDog:~] greghyde% sudo rm -rf /sw
[blueDog:~] greghyde% sudo rm -rf /usr/X11R6 /etc/X11
[blueDog:~] greghyde% sudo rm -rf /Applications/XDarwin.app
[blueDog:~]
Taking silence as agreement to the wipe the slate clean proposal, I
commenced with said proposal. All went well until...
[blueDog:~/Desktop] greghyde% rm .xinitrc .cshrc
rm: .xinitrc: No such file or directory
rm: .cshrc: No such file or directory
[blueDog:~/Desktop] greghyde% rm .xinitrc
rm:
[blueDog:~/Desktop] greghyde% rm .xinitrc .cshrc
rm: .xinitrc: No such file or directory
rm: .cshrc: No such file or directory
[blueDog:~/Desktop] greghyde% rm .xinitrc
rm: .xinitrc: No such file or directory
[blueDog:~/Desktop] greghyde% rm .cshrc
rm: .cshrc: No such file or directory
Should I be
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 12:28, Greg wrote:
Okay, I've slowd down. I've studied. I've read. And, most importantly,
I've decompressed. I think I'm ready to seek guidance once again, at a
time when my knowledge is not so impaired:
Based on the helpful links that were referred to me, I've
I've rebooted a number of times, without change.
I've emptied the .xinitrc file and replace its contents with:
source /sw/bin/init.sh
exec gnome-session
sawfish
Again, with no change.
BTW, I've also removed everything (via command line) and started over
(Three times now). The results are
I typed in startx -- -fullscreen and got the following, again:
startx: Command not found.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:44:03 -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote:
This is what it says: it looks like you just used startx; you need
to use one of
startx -- -rootless
startx -- -fullscreen
startx --
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 12:56, Greg wrote:
I've rebooted a number of times, without change.
I've emptied the .xinitrc file and replace its contents with:
source /sw/bin/init.sh
exec gnome-session
sawfish
This looks much better.
Again, with no change.
BTW, I've also removed everything
That probably means that in your attempts to install and uninstall,
you've removed the file, or your PATH isn't set up.
1) Do you have /usr/X11R6/bin/startx on your system?
2a) If not, what method did you last use to install XFree86?
2b) If you do have startx, what do you get from running
BTW, I've also removed everything (via command line) and started
over (Three times now).
Can you show us the exact series of commands you used for this?
--
~~
Jim Saklad mailto:[EMAIL
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Greg wrote:
| Okay, I've slowd down. I've studied. I've read. And, most importantly,
| I've decompressed. I think I'm ready to seek guidance once again, at a
| time when my knowledge is not so impaired:
|
| Based on the helpful links that were
I don't know if /usr/X11R6/bin/startx is on my system. ls -la of both
home and root directories didn't have it.
Most recently I've tried install via the XonX installer. Before that,
it was the GNU MAC installer. Before that it was via Fink. And before
that--the last time it worked--it was the
sudo rm -rf /Applications/X11.app /usr/bin/open-xll /private/etc/X11
/usr/X11R6 /Library/Receipts/X11User.pkg /usr/include/X11 /usr/lib/X11
sudo rm -rf /Applications/XDarwin.app /usr/X11R6/bin /etc/X11
and
sudo rm /usr/lib/libXplugin.1.dylib dylib is one the files I've been
having a hard
I'll wait to hear what the others say about the below suggestion
(although I'm pretty sure they'll agree.)
However, I looked though the Fink site and was not able to find Fun
With Fink. Do you have a link?
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:48:06 -0500, Scot Johnson wrote:
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However, I looked though the Fink site and was not able to find Fun
With Fink. Do you have a link?
It seems clear that you didn't follow his instruction:
...Phil Lavigna's Fun With Fink Document. The copy I have is dated
February. It's excellent.
You should be able to find it with Google.
I
I'll put this back on the list.
Now that the fonts are set up, you should put lines like the following
in your .xinitrc:
xfontpath install applettf
xfontpath enable
I don't know of a WM summary page, but somebody on the list may know of
one. It's hard to say whether one is intrinsically better
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Alexander Hansen wrote:
I don't know of a WM summary page, but somebody on the list may know of
one. It's hard to say whether one is intrinsically better than another,
because of different requirements: one may look good, but not be useful
for rootless operation, etc.
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Sebastian Tennant wrote:
Hi all.
Has anyone else experienced considerable screen flicker when using
XDarwin and system-xfree86 in full-screen mode? At the moment the
desktop background is a dotted grey colour and flickers like crazy. Is
there a way of changing the
I believe that the problem is that James's instructions were for Apple X11
Beta 0.1, whereas 0.2 has different libs to move:
libapplexp.1.1.dylib libapplexp.1.dylib libapplexp.dylib
(the latter two are symbolic links to the first).
Anyway, have you tried running the Console Utility, to see if
On mardi, fév 11, 2003, at 16:30 Europe/Paris, sarah smith wrote:
I did some updates through fink, and now I can't get xdarwin to work
at all.
I've tried rebuilding sawfish, that didn't help.
I've tried to rebuild xfree86-base and xfree86-system, but their
packages couldn't be found.
Couldn't
Thomas McFadden wrote:
[]
/Users/tom/.xinitrc: /sw/bin/init.csh: line 28: syntax error near
unexpected token `('
Don't source /sw/bin/init.csh in your .xinitrc.
xinit speaks 'sh', not 'csh'.
[]
#!/bin/sh
Here it even says explicitly that it will use sh.
# $Xorg:
Don't source /sw/bin/init.csh in your .xinitrc.
xinit speaks 'sh', not 'csh'.
[]
ah, another good point. i don't recall this having any adverse effects,
but there was probably something i just didn't notice, and it's one less
error in the console output for sure.
thanks Martin
-Tom
What error messages do you get from XDarwin? Try running it from a
Terminal window with startx -- -rootless (or -fullscreen) so that you
can see the error messages.
Also, is this your entire .xintirc?
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 04:47, Gianni Abbate wrote:
Well this is my .xintrc file
I am a stupid man :)) i have forgot the source eccpart in my
.xinitrc :(
well, anyway thnax for the answer andi return to Apple X11it's
more reactive and at the end...i don't need KDE :)
Venerdì, 31 Gen 2003, alle 18:31 Europe/Rome, Alexander Hansen ha
scritto:
What error
On t, 2003-01-07 at 01:34, Martin Costabel wrote:
There exist a 4.2.99 snapshot in source form, sources from cvs at
xfree86.org, and an experimental fink package that should be close to
what is to be released.
Looks like apple provided their own an xfree download as well:
It's a problem in the Darwin kernel, if I remember correctly.
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 13:38, Jakub Steiner wrote:
I wonder if fullscreen mode of XDarwin is supposed to be accelerated.
While rootless mode window redraws are decent, running in fullscreen
opaque window moves are dogslow. Is here a
On Po, 2003-01-06 at 19:50, Alexander Hansen wrote:
It's a problem in the Darwin kernel, if I remember correctly.
Is there a solution or a workaround? Fullscreen mode is kinda necessary
to run complete desktops like gnome or KDE.
--
Jakub Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The best workaround I've tried is to switch to console mode and start X
from there:
1) Under System Preferences choose Accounts, then choose the Login
Options tab. Under Display Login Window as, select name and
password
2) Log out
3) When you get the login window type
console
(including the
Ouch! I guess you could turn off all the extra animations and stuff
like that.
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 15:21, Jakub Steiner wrote:
On Po, 2003-01-06 at 20:11, Alexander Hansen wrote:
The best workaround I've tried is to switch to console mode and start X
from there:
That's pretty neat, but
Jakub Steiner wrote:
I wonder if fullscreen mode of XDarwin is supposed to be accelerated.
While rootless mode window redraws are decent, running in fullscreen
opaque window moves are dogslow. Is here a XF86Config to set up a video
driver I missed or is XDarwin not using the video hardware
Jim Saklad wrote:
The only thing that really helps is to wait until xfree68-4.3.0 comes
out (or to install a 4.2.99 snapshot). On cooperating displays
(probably those on which QuartzExtreme is working) you can get an
acceleration of a factor 10 with respect to the present situation.
Can you
Hello Alexander,
Le jeudi, 12 déc 2002, à 19:13 Europe/Paris, Alexander Hansen a écrit :
This error has been seen quite a bit lately. The library is supposed
to
be installed by xfree86-rootless-threaded-shlibs. Try rebuilding it.
Done. And it works fine now.
Many thanks
Michèle
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 03:13, Michèle Garoche wrote:
I've installed fink on a G3 running 10.2.2 via cvs unstable on a slave
disk of the main disk., xfree86 threaded versions.
When I tried to start XDarwin, I've got the following errors (and
apparently there are a bunch of alias libraries
Check and see if you have all of the following packages installed:
xfree86-base-threaded
xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs
xfree86-rootless-threaded
xfree86-rootless-threaded-shlibs
(xfree86-server has been superseded, because the rootless package is
stable)
Install any of these that you are
Thanks, Alex
I kept getting a conflict with xfree86-rootless whenever I tried to
install xfree86-rootless-threaded. That was despite the fact that the only
things listed as installed were Xfree86-rootless-threaded and
Xfree86-rootless-threaded-shlibs (as reported by fink list -iw=260
xfree)
paarr wrote:
In both cases XDarwin crashes with spectacular, long Console files when
I quit OroborOSX.
Oh yes, that's quite common with OroborOSX. If you find it annoying, you
should complain to OroborOSX's author. I don't think it has anything to
do with fink.
--
Martin
I wish they would package OroborOSX as a fink package, so I could
easily recompile and install it =(
I can't use OroborOSX at all... crashes its hacked XDarwin and then
sucks up all my CPU gdb'ing the dead process.
--jason
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 03:49 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 08:31, Elaine Sims wrote:
When ever I open AbiWord or Xemacs in KDE while running in rootless mode, XDarwin
quits unexpectedly.
Other apps installed with kdebase3-ssl seem to have no problem.
Application is configured for medium-fast processor.
I'm running 10.2.2. -
It got handled offlist, so that's why you didn't see a resolution. The
answer is to verify two things
1) Do you have xfree86-base-shlibs installed? If not, then install it.
2) If you do have it installed, verify that the file is included in it:
dpkg -L xfree86-base-shlibs
On Thu, 2002-11-21
At 13:20 -0300 2002/08/17, Rogério Brito wrote:
If I only could use an Emacs for Aqua that understood latin1
characters well and that allowed me to map the little enter
key as a control...
There are a few key-remapping utilitites: search for DoubleCommand or
CommandAndControl.
Rogério Brito wrote:
Just another note: is XDarwin quite slow in full screen mode?
Yes. But it's even slower in rootless mode ;-) It uses the already slow
quartz graphics routines without any hardware acceleration. You cannot
do anything about it.
Is it a configuration problem
On Aug 17 2002, Martin Costabel wrote:
Rogério Brito wrote:
Just another note: is XDarwin quite slow in full screen mode?
Yes. But it's even slower in rootless mode ;-) It uses the already
slow quartz graphics routines without any hardware acceleration. You
cannot do anything about
Rogério Brito wrote:
I'd like to type some texts with Emacs 20 and typeset them
with latex, but the screen scrolling of the only xterm that I
have is quite slow with the fonts that I use (10x20), even if
I don't have other programs running (besides Window Maker).
On
I also use tex, xdvi, gv and emacs quite a lot in full screen mode.
I found that scrolling is much faster with Eterm than with xterm. (Replace
the default fancy theme with a simpler one though.)
Otherwise there are versions of emacs for MacOSX that work without X, but
I haven't tried them. Anyway
Thanks for the tip. Not sure if I'm replying to this correctly so it posts,
but here is what happened:
[localhost:~] anthony% startx -- -quartz
2002-07-26 16:06:47.355 XDarwin[869]
XDarwin 1.1
Running in parallel with Mac OS X Quartz window server.
XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
On Friday 26 July 2002 16:19, Alexander Hansen wrote:
You can fix .Xauthority by doing 'touch Xauthority' in your home directory.
OOOPS. I mean 'touch .Xauthority' (dots are important)
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You can fix .Xauthority by doing 'touch Xauthority' in your home directory.
startkde should be provided by kdebase3 (or kdebase3-ssl). If you don't have
it installed, do so. If you do, try reinstalling it.
On Friday 26 July 2002 16:14, Anthony Tambourino wrote:
Thanks for the tip. Not sure
This is odd. This happened to me last night -- trying to run `startx --
-quartz' from the command line gave me the exact same error. I responded
with the following (apologies for cross-posting, but this seems relevant):
---
...This happened
If you were using the fink xfree86 packages, then check to see whether the
package manager thinks they are still installed ('fink list xfree86'). If
they are not on the list as installed then just install them. If they are
installed, then do a reinstall to restore your lost files.
I'm not
On 2/25/02 12:30, Michael Coffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy,
I had installed XFree86 4.2.0 with XDarwin 1.1 running fine on my
machine last week. I used the binary installer from the XonX at Source
Forge. All was good. Since then, I installed Fink 0.3.2a with the
binary
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