Thanks to lj Palmer's directions, Gnome is now working well, and with enough applications to be useable--as an alternative to Aqua, even. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!!! A few more questions, if you don't mind...

The first one is easy: how do I comment out the lines I placed in ~/.xinitrc to get Gnome to start automatically? Occasionally, I would like to run Matlab without running gnome.

The second one's a bit harder: is there any way to load X and gnome without running Apple's Aqua interface? This is another thing I would like to do occasionally. I have read a bit online (Sao's place and other forums, such as macosxhints), but with little luck. So far, I know I need to:

a. place an appropriate keymap in system/library/keyboard layouts
b. login as >console (this often does not work at all and the screen hangs--anyone know why?)
c. run X


This is where I get stuck. Running 'startx' hangs the screen and running exec 'startx -- -iokit' restarts Apple's window manager and sends me back to their login screen. Any help you could offer would be appreciated.

Thank you,

erez
        



On Jul 26, 2004, at 5:10 PM, lj Palmer wrote:

try typing the following command before you start in a window.

source /sw/bin/init.sh

A "program" tends not to run/execute unless its in your PATH ( /sw/bin needs to be in the list), unless you put a directory spec.
Your working directory is usually not in your PATH for security reasons. So "cd" to /sw/bin" doesn't help. The above command should fix your PATH.


If you want to execute something in your working directory type
./apt-get
as an example.

BTW.
I put the following in my ~/.xinitrc file to start Gnome automatically when start X11.


#!/bin/sh
quartz-wm --only-proxy &
source /sw/bin/init.sh
exec /sw/bin/gnome-session
exec sawfish &

..lj

On Jul 26, 2004, at 19:04, Erez Yoeli wrote:

Hi,

I recently installed fink and the gnome packages. I dowloaded all the the binaries using the graphical installer, and now, I'm not sure what to do. I went into fink's sw/bin folder and tried running apt-get (it shows up when I type 'ls') but got a 'command not found' error. I also tried running 'gdm', but got a similar error. Anyone have any idea what I did wrong? Thanks,

erez



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