Brian Beckage wrote:
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Why do the X11 and terminal windows have different search paths?
Short answer: Because your xterm runs bash differently from
Terminal.app. Longer answer: There are many different ways to give a
decent environment to the shell running in an xterm.
I could describe you at least 7 or 8 from the top of my head;
- some of these are surely described somewhere in the Fink documentation;
- they are all described somewhere in the list archives;
- they involve alternatively the files ~/.xinitrc or
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist or the X11 Applications menu;
- you probably don't want to use any of these but use Terminal.app instead.
Why does xemacs not launch in a seperate window with a GUI?
Short answer: because you don't have DISPLAY set.
Longer answer: Either run xemacs using the /usr/bin/open-x11 script:
open-x11 xemacs
which has the additional benefit that it starts X11 if it is not yet
running, but has the disadvantage that it doesn't take arguments; so you
can't say "open-x11 xemacs Abstract.tex",
or set the DISPLAY environment variable globally in your shell:
export DISPLAY=:0
or set it for xemacs only:
env DISPLAY=:0 xemacs
You can even use the latter in an alias:
alias xem='env DISPLAY=:0 xemacs'
and then use xem instead of xemacs in your Terminal.app window.
--
Martin
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