Hello list, I am a brand new Mac Convert. I have many, many years of experience with Linux but my boss wooed me with a shiny, new PowerBook (15", G4) and I fell in love with it immediately.
So, of course the first thing I tried to do was get X installed and running. Relevant info follows: Impatiently, I jumped in feet first (bad move, I know now!!) I got my PB right before the Tiger release so after initial X installation failures, acquired Tiger and upgraded (nice upgrade, too I thought!). I managed to get XDarwin installed but couldn't get programs like Gimp (2.2.5?)to run. Only really saw an Xterm function. More impatiently, I rushed into installing the KDE OSX port. Sadly dissapointed with its performance. Next, I played with Fink. Never got X happy under it and an NMap install did not produce nmapfe. I did get Apple's X11 installed but that too wouldn't do things like feed an app window. I setup XForwarding in ssh_config, restarted ssh, echo $DISPLAY showed 0:0, did ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED], attempted to launch redhat-config-users & but got nothing but errors about my xserver. (had Apple's X11 in Full Screen mode). Pulling kate across the wire did work, however. So, my questions (I know, *about time!!*, right?): Should I just start all over? What is the *safe* way to clean up the mess I'm sure I made short of reinstalling the entire system (not really an option I'd like to consider....) Can I zap my X directories and start fresh? If so, what is the *preferred* method to get X up and running? What kind of realistic results should I expect? I know I'm asking alot in my first post here, but I promise in the long run I'll try to help others with what I learn :-) Thanks in advance to whatever advice I might recieve!! - Derek
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