Title: X11, Terminal confusion
Hello,

I just installed Mac OS 10.4.2 over the weekend and deliberately erased my old HD.  While installing 10.4.2, I also installed Xcode 2 tools (including the Apple X11).  I downloaded the Fink 0.8.0 Binary Installer and all seems to go well.   Note that I did all of the fink installations (sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install fink) from a terminal window (not X11).  Fink seems to be working and so then I install xemacs.

The first 'problem' that I noticed is that when I launch xemacs from the terminal window, a new xemacs window/buffer does not appear with the GUI.  So I guess that perhaps this is related to using a terminal window instead of an X11 window and so I try launching xemacs from an X11 window.  xemacs is not found and NONE of the fink installations are even in the search path:
echo $PATH from the X11 window gives
 (/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin)

while echo $PATH from the terminal window gives
(/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin).

I'm using the bash shell and the .profile file has only the line:

test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh

Why do the X11 and terminal windows have different search paths?

Why does xemacs not launch in a seperate window with a GUI?

Where have I gone wrong?

Thank you for your help.

Brian

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Brian Beckage
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