~ is a shorthand way of saying "the rest of the path that leads to your home directory, in which we will find..."
~/.xinitrc stands for /Users/yourusernamehere/.xinitrc You might want to check out some Terminal tutorials from www.osxfaq.com or www.macosxhints.com. Ill help if you cant figure something out. About copying and pasting... erm... hmm.. See, there's these issues with "line breaks", which are ASCII characters that do special things. When you type "enter" in a text editor, you are in fact entering a special text character called a newline (i think). Anyway on some systems, to get the same effect that you're used to on the mac, the text editor program needs to write "newline" plis "linefeed" (or was it "return") .. anyway, this is extremely muddled in my head. Maybe someone else can clarify. Sorry for my brain-knot on this issue. If you're clever, youll be able to use google to find out more about this. Its mainly for general knowledge. Just to know: unix ways of dealing with text files are different from a macs and different from a DOS/Wintel machine. (I'm just confusing you, right? im very tired) Short story: best make it in pico, then youll gain experience with the terminal. cd (this is a shortcut that will take you to your home dir) pico .xinitrc type the text control x yes to save there you go. type exit and close that terminal window (for luck) and make a new terminal window (probably completely unnecessary) Paul On Sunday, July 7, 2002, at 04:51 , Chris Uribe wrote: > I'm running Mac OS X. > I've installed fink. > I've installed KDE (with Pauls help::THANKS::) > Now, how to run it. On the website it clearly states, > > > "all you need to do is make an ~/.xinitrc file with > the following line in it: > > source /sw/bin/init.sh > /sw/bin/startkde " > > What is a .xinitrc file? Or more importantly, > Where do I put the .xinitrc file after I've created > it? > And, is it so simple as opening up a text editor, > copying the two lines required and saving it as a file > named ".xinitrc"? > > thanks for the help! > ----Chris > :0) > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > We have stuff for geeks like you. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek We have stuff for geeks like you. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
