On Tuesday 17 May 2005 04:46 pm, Derek Schaible wrote: Are you running a window manager under X? You need to have a .xinitrc file in your home directory that calls up a window manager as gimp, etc will not run natively on the mac desktop (except for some feeble attempts) so you don't run anything without the window manager without getting the result that you did. At least that is my experience. good luck
> 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
