On 3/19/06, Torsten Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Howdy, all!
>
> I'm trying to find a way to _very simply_ start Bluefish in a school
> environment. Right now I have managed to do the following
>
> After starting X11 I go into Terminal and do this
>
> tottos-PowerBook-G4:~ totto$ tcsh
> [tottos-PowerBook-G4:~] totto% setenv DISPLAY:0
> tcsh: setenv: Syntax Error.
> [tottos-PowerBook-G4:~] totto% setenv DISPLAY :0; bluefish &
> [1] 6537
>
> That gets me a wonderful Bluefish (except that it crashes on the open
> dialog, but I can live with that for now).
>
> Now, to make it simpler for the students (and colleagues...), I have
> two questions:
>
> a) What needs to be done to start the app by typing bluefish & in the
> Xterm window of X11? That would be acceptable.

That _should_ work.  What's the nature of your crash?

>
> b) How do I package it all into one script that folks can run by
> double clicking on it? Either I can't do the shell stuff
> (AppleScript) or I don't know how to start X11 (shell). Probably both
> can do it all, but how?

I use XDroplets to do stuff like this.  It's a relatively simple tool
that lets you make up OSX application bundles to run X11 programs.

>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Torsten Otto
>
>
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