Chris Lord wrote: > Alex, > > That is where I found the file before I edited it (xinitrc). I can't > look in the system folder using X11 terminal, only my user/private > folder. I have previously printed the doc you referenced and was using > it when I edited the file. > > I cannot find the file ~/.xinitrc (I assume "~/." means at root?) No. It means /Users/<yourusername>. So ~/.xinitrc is /Users/<yourusername/.xinitrc .
> because the difficulty I have is trying to do anything at all as root. > I cannot log in as root, or act as root in the X11 terminal. "sudo -s" gives the effect of switching to root. > When I use sudo to look for xinitrc in the terminal all I find is the > file in my private folder, just as if I searched for it from /user. > > The result of a Finder>Find from the Mac side, including invisible > files, reveals no file called ~/.xinitrc, only xinitrc in the location > user/private/etc/X11/xinit. When I look in the system folder all I see > is the library folder, and whereabouts ~/.xinitrc would be in that lot > is anybody's guess, Finder>Find certainly doesn't show it. The Finder deliberately ignores files whose names start with a "." > > It would help if there were a way to log into OS X as root, like there > is in Linux. I've never known an OS like it for fighting you every > step of the way. Is there a way of reading root's password, or > resetting it to something memorable of my choosing? None of my OS X > advanced manuals tell of a way, they all trot the usual mantra of > avoiding logging on as root as if you were a complete novice. > > I am not worried about screwing my OS up because I have it cloned onto > a mirror partition on an external hard drive that is normally powered > down. I make daily incremental backups & I can boot from it, or a > patch partition and clone it back onto my user partition. So if > anything disastrous occurs, I can recover my previous state. > > Chris Lord > > This is what xinitrc looks like: > > #!/bin/sh > # $Id: xinitrc,v 1.2 2003/02/27 19:03:30 jharper Exp $ > > userresources=$HOME/.Xresources > usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap > sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources > sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap > > # merge in defaults and keymaps > > if [ -f $sysresources ]; then > xrdb -merge $sysresources > fi > > if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then > xmodmap $sysmodmap > fi > > if [ -f $userresources ]; then > xrdb -merge $userresources > fi > > if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then > xmodmap $usermodmap > fi > > # start some nice programs > > xterm & > > # start the window manager > > exec quartz-wm Aha! Delete the above line. What's happening is that quartz-wm gets run, and then nothing else happens because it doesn't have an & after it to send the process to background. Thus nothing below actually run1. > export KDEWM=kwin > source /sw/bin/init.sh > /sw/bin/startkde >/tmp/kde.log 2>&1 > > On 17 Jul 2007, at 16:34, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink User Liaison/Documenter akh AT finkproject DOT org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
