It also seems that I have a .profile file with that test -r line in it, 
but I thought I had to use .cshrc for Tiger?

Hopefully someone out there has a simple solution to get this working 
properly?  I'm just getting more confused right now...

Thanks,
-Matt


On Fri, 12 May 2006, Matt Kozak wrote:

> I tried adding the fink "test -r ..." line but it didn't change the $PATH
> in X11 (other .xinitrc changes did take)?
> Is there an errant space or character in there?
>
> As for the display export, I thought there was a reason that you did not
> want to explicitly set that, but that must be my bad memory or based on
> some other issue (will it do bad things to other things)?
>
> I also tried Alex's solution, for example:
> xterm -ls
> ...and it said "xterm Xt error: Can't open display:"
> ...which, of course, is fixed after doing an "export DISPLAY=:0"
> However, there must be a nice set of instructions for doing this
> permanently?  Perhaps the following:
> 1) Edit .cshrc to export DISPLAY=:0
> (will this be bad to do, in general)?
> 2) The next trick is the $PATH, which I somehow have to edit in .xinitrc -
> anyone have any ideas on the best way to override the PATH without
> breaking it on Tiger, and preferably without having to keep changing it
> to match Terminal's whenever (if ever) that changes?
> 3) When an X-app opens it sits there waiting for me to click the mouse
> with the corner pointer - any way to get it to just open and not wait for
> me to click the mouse to put the window somewhere?
>
> I normally use X11 great for ssh -X and -Y, but this local stuff is a bit
> different.
>
> Sorry if this is way off-topic...?
>
> Thanks,
> -Matt
>
>
> On Fri, 12 May 2006, Christopher Bort wrote:
>
>> On 05/12/06 at 10:55, Matt Kozak wrote:
>>
>>> Fink has inserted the needed $PATH to Terminal, but not to X11.  Can
>>> anyone tell me how (or the "best" way) to make their paths identical so
>>> that they can find the same stuff, especially fink's sw/ stuff?
>>
>> I don't know if it's the best way, but I've simply added the same line to
>> my .xinitrc as the fink set-up script adds to you're shell's start-up
>> script:
>>
>> test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh
>>
>>> If I figured out how to do this with Panther, I'm not sure how it may
>>> be different on Tiger, if at all?  Now that I think about it, I was
>>> using X-Darwin on Panther, so maybe it's an Apple X11 thing?  If I
>>> run the stuff from Terminal, it acts like there's no X-environment.
>>> Perhaps that's another issue entirely?
>>
>> You need to tell your shell what display to use (e.g., for bash you'd use
>> something like `export DISPLAY=:0`).
>> --
>> Christopher Bort
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> <http://www.thehundredacre.net/>
>>
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