Someone wrote me today asking for instructions on how to get XDarwin working. As a supplement to the fink page
http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/index.php here is the abstract of my installation process. >From http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php you get their main package. The command line interface is simple, you type fink list to list available packages and you type fink install <package> to install the package you want. In this case, you first want fink install xfree86-base then fink install xfree86-rootless You'll then need two other things -- a file in your home directory called .tcshrc with something like what follows written in it: alias sx 'startx -- -rootless' if (! $?DISPLAY) then setenv DISPLAY :0.0 endif if ( -f "/sw/bin/init.csh" ) then source /sw/bin/init.csh endif You also need a file called .xinitrc, which should look something like this: #!/bin/sh userresources=$HOME/.Xresources usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap # merge in defaults and keymaps if [ -f $sysresources ]; then xrdb -merge $sysresources fi if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then xmodmap $sysmodmap fi if [ -f $userresources ]; then xrdb -merge $userresources fi if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then xmodmap $usermodmap fi # start some nice programs twm & exec xemacs The second to last line is the window manager (twm comes with the xfree86 base). You need to chose some X windows program that you don't mind having running the whole time you are using X windows, or it won't start. Note than right now xterm isn't a good choice, compare my earlier message. Restart terminal. You can now type sx to start XDarwin. Note that somewhere along the line, a red X-shaped icon appears, you can click on that to start XDarwin too. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
