Gents:
I'm your basic GUI guy trying to get som emore life out of my older
computer, just beginning to try to use Fink running 10.4.11 on an iMac PPC
iLamp. I updated Fink using Fink Commander 0.5.5 and downloaded Gnome among
other stuff that FC thought I'd want. I read through the FAQ and took
notes. I already had Apple X11 installed, but then I saw in the notes to
not use it, so I typed "startx" in a Terminal window and got XFree to launch
an "X" quartz window??? And I tried to type something like what I've found
on the FAQ to try to get Gnome to open a window, but so far it ain't doin'
nothing . . . . When the X window didn't do anything I couldn't copy/paste
from it, so I launched right from Apple X11 and tried some of the commands
and got the same basic failure . . . . How do I get Fink or Gnome to do
anything? A few days ago I got FC to load Mozilla and I typed "mozilla" in
the X11 window and I got a browser page to open and I checked my email.
After I did an FC "update" it unloaded mozilla and now there are no binaries
for Firefox or SeaMonkey? And nothing is happening. When I typed "man" in
the X window it says "check page 8 for commands and options." When it asked
me "what page do you want?" I typed "8" and it said, "no such page." I
tried "commands" and it gave me nothing, and "options" took me to something
on widgets. It seems like I'm very lost. Just, how to "launch" Fink or
Gnome would be helpful???
Help!!
Fritz H.
LA, CA
[:~] % ./sw/bin/init.sh
tcsh: ./sw/bin/init.sh: Command not found.
[:~] % ./sw/bin/init.sh quartz-wm --only-proxy & exec gnome-session
[1] 19441
tcsh: gnome-session: Command not found.
tcsh: ./sw/bin/init.sh: Command not found.
[:~] fritzhud% sudo rm -rf/usr/x11R6/etc/X11
Password:
rm: illegal option -- /
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file
[1] + Exit 1 ./sw/bin/init.sh quartz-wm --only-proxy
[:~] %
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