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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
