On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 11:14 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> YAY. > finally... i did the apt-get way. > > i have a couple last questions -after this BIG thank you! THANK YOU. Excellent, glad to here it working :) > > 1) i have a line here that says: ...: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should > be set > to root > (what should i do with that advice -what commands should i type?) Not sure on that one??? If it was me I would just remove it, and see what happens, but thats me :) > > 2) since installing the way i have now, does Fink know i have XDarwin > installed or will i need [later] system-xfree86? Fink recognizes anything installed by apt-get, just do a 'fink list' to see. :) > > 3) what the best and easiest (one shot?, i.e., fink install _____ ) wm > to > put on besides TWM? Even easier do 'sudo apt-get install windowmaker' > > 4) and should i copy the .xinitrc from the wherever it is? to the user's > home dir? (where is it? since i'm here, i may as well ask). Then run the command 'wmaker.inst' and it creates and sets up the .xinitrc automatically to use windowmaker, in the user's home dir. Let me know now that goes Matt > > on 5/12/02 9:01 PM, Matt Stephenson, typed: > >> sudo rm -r /Applications/XDarwin.app >> >> On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 10:54 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> ok, in the past fink remove xfree86-rootless removed the folder... now >>> it >>> does not... it says: >>> dpkg - warning: while removing xfree86-rooless, directory >>> '/Applications/XDarwin.app/Contents/MacOS' not empty so not removed. >>> >>> please advise? >>> >>> -Ted >>> >>> >>> on 5/12/02 8:17 PM, Matt Stephenson, typed: >>> >>>> Ted >>>> >>>> the xfree86-rootless binary is at the same version as if you were >>>> building it from source I would go that way just for simplicity. :) >>>> >>>> On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 09:55 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> i hope this isn't bad... here's what i did: >>>>> i did do a fink remove xfree86-rootless, in fact i did fink remove >>>>> xfree86-base, too. >>>>> then i had fink install xfree86-rootless... nothing changed, i.e., >>>>> it >>>>> did >>>>> not alleviate the problem. >>>>> >>>>> right now i'm in the middle of fink rebuild xfree86-base, then i'll >>>>> do >>>>> rootless -unless i give that up and go your way. >>>> >>>> Give that ago, and see what happens >>>> >>>> I recently had a harddrive crash and had to reinstall everything >>>> and I >>>> wanted xfree back in a hurry so just went 'sudo apt-get install >>>> xfree86-base' and 'sudo apt-get install-xfree86-rootless' and had X >>>> up >>>> and running within a couple of minutes. >>>> >>>> HTH >>>> Matt >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________________________ >>>> >>>> Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We >>>> supply >>>> the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Fink-beginners mailing list >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners >>> >>> >>> "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." >>> -- Stephen Wright >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________________________ >>> >>> Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We >>> supply >>> the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Fink-beginners mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners >> >> >> _______________________________________________________________ >> >> Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We >> supply >> the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> _______________________________________________ >> Fink-beginners mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > > > "The question is not how to use computing power efficiently, > but how to squander it creatively." > -- Dr. David Gelernter > _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
