On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Alexander Hansen wrote: > 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)?
Actually this seems to have sorted itself after rebooting. Previously I had stopped and re-started X11, but perhaps the old login info was cached somehow. > > 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... I now have this working normally, after updating from the latest stable Fink to the latest "unstable", with gnuplot 3.8i. Allin Cottrell. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
