Re: [Fink-beginners] XDarwin crashes almost immediately

[Alexander K. Hansen]

On Jun 17, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Benjamin Gilbert wrote: Alexander: many thanks for your reply. I have a file (~/.xinitrc) that is empty and a file (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc) whose contents I paste below. I previously had Apple's X11 running fine, but I could not get this to work with subsequent Fink installations, so I removed it and use Fink Commander to install xfree86 and xfree86-shlibs. ben <snip--looks OK> The empty '~/.xinitrc' is what's doing it--if '~/.xinitrc' exists then '/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' is ignored. --  Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA  02139-4213