Actually, you just have to create a startup file in your home
directory.  Check out

http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/run-xfree86.php#xinitrc .

It even tells you how to run GNOME!

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 15:24, John Demboski wrote:
> Hello Fink-beginners,
> 
> I am new to UNIX/Darwin, but would like to use a few of the available 
> programs (i.e., GRASS) for my research.  I just downloaded and 
> installed FINK, xfree86-base, x-free86rootless, and Sawfish 
> "successfully" on my Titanium G4 running OS10.2.2.  I get the green 
> Xterm window etc. to run but my problem is that I can't get Sawfish 
> (and eventually GNOME) to run.  I guess I need to override the start-up 
> of the default window manager that comes packaged with xfree86?  To do 
> this I am guessing that I need to edit the .init file for xDarwin? or 
> is there some other way?
> 
> Could someone point me in the right direction?  I have looked all over 
> the web (FINK, Sawfish, GNOME, web sites etc.) that last few days and 
> couldn't find anything (or I didn't recognize it).
> 
> Any help with also getting GNOME to run would be appreciated.
> 
> thanks in advance
> John Demboski
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Levitated Dipole Experiment
175 Albany Street, NW17-219
Cambridge, MA  02139-4213


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