[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. First, we are trying to track who is using the OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 release versions by language. Please reply to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list with any problems you have with the program.
> 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. Ok. Let's figure out what is wrong and how to fix it. > The X11 terminal states that it does not recognize these commands. Ok. You are trying to edit the file from within X11. This will not work from what I know. You will have to do this from within the terminal program. > 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. Ok. Here is how I edited the X11 initialization file, xinitrc which is located in the /etc/X11/xinit directory. So we have to enact an editor that works under Terminal and do this with a user that can edit the file. So, you have to log into your Mac with an administrative user. Once you are logged in, you have to open the Macintosh HD item and switch to the Applications folder. In this folder, you have to open the Utilities folder and then open the terminal program. From the command prompt, you should be able to type in 'sudo nano /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' You should be able from this point to disable the xterm & line at the bottom per the How to PDF file. Now, you and the rest of the list may wonder why you could not edit this from the xterm session. This file is locked when you startup X11 to prevent inconsistancies. You are not the first nor the last who is going to try to edit this file from within a xterm session using nano. > 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 : This is incorrect and could someone fix this? This should only be done from a Terminal session. > > 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. > BTW, these instructions do work with both 10.3.x and 10.4.x. James McKenzie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
