The window being stuck looks like the window manager isn't being invoked correctly, due possibly to PATH issues. Try adding
. /sw/bin/init.sh at the beginning of your .xinitrc The xterm scrollbar problem has nothing to do with .xinitrc . You'll need to modify the "Terminal" entry in the Application menu to look something like this: xterm -sb Check out the xterm man page for all of the things you can do to an xterm. -- 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 On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Michael Mosley wrote: > OK, I am a unix newbie but have been diving into learning. I dumped all > of my previous xfree installations and started anew with Apples new X11 > release. I am now stuck with the heavily threaded problem of xterm > window stuck in the upper left and inability to scroll up more than a > page. > > So here is my plea, will one of you seasoned Unix gods PLEASE put up a > post on EXACTY what to do with the .xinitrc file. Please make this > step-by-step as if you are addressing a complete unix moron (which you > are in my case). > > My gratitude shall be eternal. > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
