On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Allin Cottrell wrote: > I recently installed the latest stable Fink over OS X 10.2.4 and > Apple's X11 beta3. > > There are a couple of things I'm having difficulty with. > > 1. How do I get my default shell for xterm changed? I changed my > default to /bin/bash in Netinfo (also in /etc/passwd for good > measure). The Mac Terminal app respects this choice, but when I start > X11 the xterm still comes up with tcsh as the shell.
This may be an Apple X11 quirk. What happens if you start an xterm from a Terminal.app window (making sure that X11 is running and your DISPLAY is set)? > > 2. Gnuplot as installed via Fink (version 3.8h) is behaving oddly. I > need to be able to use it in batch mode, but that's not working. For > example, I created a trivial input file, foo.gp, as follows: > > set term png > set output 'foo.png' > plot sin(x) > > When I do "gnuplot foo.gp" at the command prompt I expect for gnuplot > to silently create foo.png (as it does on Linux and on Windows), but > what actually happens is that an interactive gnuplot session starts in > the terminal window, showing the message "terminal type 'unknown'". > I tried this, and it worked normally for me. I'm using the xfree86 (4.3) package, rather than Apple X11, so that may be relevant. One caveat is that I did it from home by doing 'ssh -X' from a Linux box. > Thanks for any help with these issues. > > -- > Allin Cottrell > Department of Economics > Wake Forest University, NC > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! > NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
