Thanks Eric, Alexander and especially Martin for putting me straight :-)
On 16/12-2003, at 14.48, Martin Costabel wrote:
I think you should *not* try to play around with your shell startup scripts (although it may be too late for this advice now). You should start by trying to ask the right question. You keep comparing X11.app and Terminal.app. This is comparing not apples and oranges but single apples and whole orange trees.
or 2. Create a ~/.xinitrc file like in 1., but without the second line. Forget about xterm and use Terminal.app windows instead. If you export DISPLAY=:0 you can start any X11 program from the command line in your Terminal.app window, and you have a much better environment than in xterm. You can even start an xterm from the command line if you need one, and it will inherit your PATH variable from your Terminal.app environment.I have removed the bogus ~/.bashrc file, and created a .xinitrc as prescribed by Martin, containing the lines:
source /sw/bin/init.sh
exec quarz-wm
and have subsequently been able to launch X-apps from Terminal.app. I've added the line
export DISPLAY=:0
to my ~/.profile, and it works great.
Thanks again,
Steffen
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