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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jeffry C Nichols
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] (no subject)
On Sep 15, 2004, at 10:34 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
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> Are you running a window manager in your .xintirc as well?
after sending the email I realized this was the case. however, after
installing blackbox, XDarwin still quits without giving me any windows.
My .xinitrc is as follows:
. /sw/bin/init.sh
xterm &
exec blackbox
however, I'm still getting the odd console warning/error:
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
removing from list!
it seems as if this is causing more trouble than I thought--no
reference of it in the documentation, however.
Jeff Nichols
I had a very similar problem recently and very similar output in the log. I seem to have solved it by performing the following steps, but I chose Apple's X11 user application rather than the XDarwin application.
First, I followed Martin Costabel's fairly old instructions for cleaning up the existing xfree86 installation for use with Apple's X11 User:
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You need to clean
up. What I would do is
1. remove all fink xfree86 packages (get the list from "fink list
xfree86", then do "fink remove" on all of them, and if this doesn't
work, use "sudo dpkg -r --force-depends" on them).
2. remove the /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11 directories
3. reinstall Apple's X11 (and don't forget the X11 SDK package)
(I should note here that I let Fink do the installing of the X11 User application, I just mounted the disk image I had made which contains Apple's X11 User installer package and let Fink find it. Fink lists it as X11-app. You could also mount the 3rd CD from Panther's installation disk set, if you're using Panther, and Fink can find it there. This way Fink handles the next step for you. - LL)
4. install the fink system-xfree86 package (depending on your version of fink, this may mean installing system-xfree86 or system-xfree86-42 or nothing at all, the latest fink being so clever that it installs a virtual system-xfree86 for you automatically)
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At this point the problem still existed, but most of the garbage in the system.log file that I'd seen before after launching X11 was gone, so I knew I had made a move in the right direction. At this point I restarted the computer just because I started using Macs a long time ago and I'm a little superstitious, I guess (actually, I also remembered the log entry about something in the /tmp folder having the wrong owner). Anyway, when it came back up, I created the .xinitrc with just one line:
exec twm
Then I launched the X11 application that Fink had put in /sw/Applications and it stayed open this time. I got twm's little widget for setting window location, but I don't know how to make the window appear when X11 User is rootless, so I changed that preference and relaunched. So far, so good.
Laine
