-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/22/11 2:11 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > Dr H: > > I aoplogize if my email woke you up, sorry. And, I appreciate the > information you are providing in terms of what's needed and what isn't. > However, my question about how to "use" a fink installed application > does not appear to have been addressed, yet. What would be a sample > command to type into X11 to get one of the fink installed unix apps to > do what it does? E.g., I have open office, which needs X11 to run, when > I click on the OO icon X11 opens a window and a couple of mnutes later > OO opens and lets me do stuff. So far I haven't found how to get any of > the FC installed apps to do anything beyond "man" . . . and perhaps the > packages that FC installs are not enough to actually do anything? I saw > your comment about "not all apps run" but what apps do or what would be > a fairly fast sample command to set up that running app and then "run" > it???? >
I said "not all apps are intended to be run by the user". They're run by other apps. Also, a fair number of the application packages in Fink don't do anything special under X11 because they're command-line apps. > Is there a sample command that you can show me that can "launch" an app > or a sample package to install that will "do" something? Given that if > I erase the aes51 file and try to finish installing sawfish, if that > goes well, will I be able to type "sawfish" in an X11 or Terminal window > and sawfish will do something? X11 window managers don't really work that way, normally. They generally fail if another one is running. Though the current version of metacity can do that if you use metacity --replace & in your X11 terminal window. Or is all this beyond doing something? > it's just about data acquisition, having the data in my computer? > > FC says I have 240 apps installed now, everything is more or less "up to > date" as far as a PPC 10.4.11 unit can be; is there a general app > command that I can type to "use" a Unix app? That is my simple > question; in other words, what package do I need to have to be able to > then "use" it? Out of the 240 apps which one might "open" and run? Without knowing what you have installed, it's essentially impossible for me to give an answer for your system. A fair number of the packages you have from the "base" section have programs, but they're all command-line based. It > looks like the entire Gnome package might take days to install?? would > there be something faster to just give me a sample of what can be done > with Unix?? And, then, how to "start" up the app?? Thanks very kindly. > > F > http://surfingthetimelesswave.net > GUI apps work like mozilla, which you already have. You type the program name into an X11 terminal window, and they open. Pick something that sounds interesting, and I'll tell you what to run. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2x0FsACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ+KQACghNj1PCRxjcSCMiMDGAL/jPsE hA4An3pKcHULfOZOx/UJCGePnX7Dr5E0 =GeAG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
