Fortunately, this one's easy.  Use

startx -- -rootless 

to start up in rootless mode

startx -- -quartz

to start in the mode as set up in your XDarwin.app preferences

or startx -- -fullscreen

to start in full screen mode.

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 14:36, Julian F.Woods wrote:
<snip>
> but when I start up the program, it fails:
> 
> [Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% startx
> 
> 
> XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
> Release Date: 11 March 2002
>          If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your hardware is
>          newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
>          reporting problems.  (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
> Operating System: Darwin
> Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping.
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> Display mode: IOKit
> Failed to connect to the HID System as the window server!
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Quit the Mac OS X window server or use the -quartz option.
> 
>     OsVendorFatalError
>     AbortDDX
> Quitting XDarwin...
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> [Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods%
> 
<snip>
-- 
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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