On May 7, 2004, at 9:02 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:

I've recently installed XDarwin via fink. but have yet to get it to start up. Whenever I try running "startx -- -fullscreen" or
"startx -- -rootless" my cursor will change to an "X" for about 5 seconds then quit mysteriously. Running the fullscreen
mode also causes the screen to turn to a black and white checker pattern before quitting. "xfree86" and "xfree86-shlibs"
are my installed packages. My .xinitrc file has a single "source /sw/bin/init.sh". Here is the output from some of the commands:




That's your problem: you aren't calling a window manager in your .xinitrc .


--
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documentarian
Day Job:  Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX



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