September 4, 2006
To whom it may concern (Open Office Support),
I am a Mac OS X (10.3.9 - Panther) user and I have X11 correctly
installed. My problem is the following: I have just installed the
newest version of Open Office (2.0.3) for Mac. Everything works fine
except I can not get rid of the Xterm screen when the Open Office app
starts up. I followed the instructions outlined in the
"Howto_OOo_2.0_MacOSX_english" pdf (see below), but it does not work.
The X11 terminal states that it does not recognize these commands.
After typing in the line and entrying the information, I get a prompt
for a password; however, if I type my known Unix/Mac passwords they
are not accepted. If I type "su" for root user password and then
enter my password it is accepted, but when I type the command line
path that is instructed in your "How to PDF" I get an unrecognized
command or that it does not recognize "nano", etc. Even if I type
"sudo" alone I simply get a commands menu. I tried every different
combination of the path that I knew how to write, but nothing works.
What can I do? I am not a Unix user in the sense of knowing how to
properly use a command system well. I just have a very basic
knowledge. Please help. Thank you.
Note: This is the command line I used from the "How to PDF":
1.6 How to get rid of the Xterm that starts without asking ?
In the starting Xterm, type the following command line :
sudo nano /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
go to the line that contains " xterm & ", and add a " # " at the
beginning. Which gives :
before :
xterm &
after :
# xterm &
after the change :
CTRL-O to validate the change, folowed by CTRL-X to quit the Nano editor
-> effect : on the next launch of OpenOffice.org, the Xterm won't
show up again.
P.S. I do not use Mac OS X (10.4x) because I had alot of problems
with it in the past, so I reverted to version 10.3.9.
Sincerely Yours,
Dwight A. Tkatschow
Sessional Lecturer,
Ritsumeikan University &
Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts
Kyoto, Japan
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