On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 04:09 , Gregoire Faber wrote:
>> > Hi , > > I just downloaded Xfree86 4.2.0 > > I have an iMac running OSX. i need to connect to the Solaris mchines at > school so that's why I downloaded Xfree86. I suppose the installer > installed everything it needed to install and now I'd like to know how > to use it. Where do I go for this info? I double clicked the X-Darwin > application icon and it starts up and then stops and nothing seems to > happen. Usually the double click should open you at least 3 terminal windows (horribly looking ones) that is the minimum when no x-client can be launched (people around correct me if i�m wrong). You can try to launch XDarwin via the apple terminal window with startx -- -quartz. Then just read the messages appearing on your terminal, maybe it will help some people around to understand what�s going on. Don�t worry about the Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library this do not impair the X-session. Maybe you should also try to look at the .xinitrc in your $HOME directory. Via the terminal just do : cd $HOME and ls -la to see if .xinitrc is present. Then you can edit it and change it: sudo emacs .xinitrc (computer will ask you for your password) to edit and then if there is no exec NAME (name can be any window manager name) written on the last text line of the file just add exec gnome-session (for a gnome X window manager or any wm name you would like if installed), save and restart XDarwin. > I don't know anything about unix, you you'll have to be clear about > everything. All I want is an X windows server so that I can run the > applications from school on my computer... help me out please. I�m really bad at unix also but I managed to make everything work till now. I suggest you to install fink and take a look at their site, there is lots of links, informations, and software (windows managers for example) to download. http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/index.php hope it helped, Eric DUFOUR _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
