Thank you for the reply.
I am running 10.4. The command "fink list -i xinitrc" returns nothing
except a package count. The command "find / \*xinitrc" returns:
/private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
/usr/X11R6/etc/xinit/xinitrc
Both xinitrc files end with "exec quartz-wm" and don't mention "twm".
I know unix uses a .xinitrc in the users home directory, but there are
no .xinitrc files on the system. I am still stuck.
Brian
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 06:49:40AM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
> On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Brian M. Sutin wrote:
>
> >A few year I ran some sort of update in fink commander that I really
> >should not have. I think I compiled something. Before, the window
> >system was gnome/kde like, and rather intuitive. Now it is more like
> >Sunwindows or the old Solaris. A click is required to place a new
> >window, three windows are automatically created when X starts, and
> >resizing a window is a completely non-intuitive multi-stage process.
> >We can't figure out how to delete a window at all. It is really
> >quite horrible. How do I reverse whatever I did?
> >
> >Brian
> >
> >--
> >Brian M. Sutin, Ph.D. Space System Engineering and Optical Design
> >Skewray Research/316 W Green St/Claremont CA 91711 USA/(909) 621-3122
> >
>
> That's the ancient twm window manager. It comes with X11 so it's
> nothing you installed.
>
> It sounds to me as though you were relying on the system-level xinitrc
> and it got supplanted somehow. The only package that I know of that
> can do this is the xinitrc package, which will move your old xinitrc
> out of the way. You can see if this got installed on an update via
> "fink list -i xinitrc".
>
> If that's installed, your old xinitrc will have been backed up. Check
> in /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit on 10.5, or /etc/X11/xinit on 10.4.
>
> I'm a bit surprised that it's using twm, but since I don't know
> anything about what OS version you're running, and if on 10.4 or
> earlier, what X11 distribution you're using, nor which window manager
> you were running before.
>
--
Brian M. Sutin, Ph.D. Space System Engineering and Optical Design
Skewray Research/316 W Green St/Claremont CA 91711 USA/(909) 621-3122
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