OK, first of all, thank you for your help so far.
But I guess I am just stupid or I'm missing something simple...
--On Tuesday, January 18, 2005 1:53 AM +0100 Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sheila King wrote: []Last login: Mon Jan 17 15:06:53 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! iMac:~ sheilaking$ which xchat /sw/bin/xchat iMac:~ sheilaking$ xchat
(xchat:503): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
You need to set the DISPLAY environment variable.
OK, I know what environment variables are. I understand why it may be necessary to set the DISPLAY variable to get xchat to run properly (or, I suppose, any program depending on the Xwindowing system?)
If you are using Apple's X11,
I don't have any specific preference on whether to use Apple's X11 or to use the one installed by Fink (I assume it installed one? Or at least I tried to...
Let's see...
... OK, back. I looked through my directories, and I don't really see where it's installed. Although I used FinkCommander last night and _asked_ FinkCommander to install it for me. And if I open up FinkCommander and sort on the "Installed" column, it shows several files there that have "xfree86" in the name of the file.
But as I said above, either Apple's X11 or one installed along with Fink...either is fine by me. I suppose I'd prefer whichever one looks/works best, or really, whichever on I can get to work.
you can do this and even start X11 if necessary by running open-x11 xchat
I tried that, but here are the results (not good):
iMac:~ sheilaking$ open-x11 xchat -bash: open-x11: command not found
On the Fink web site there is some documentation about running X11 applications that you might wanat to read.
I assume you mean this page:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/run-xfree86.php?phpLang=en
I've looked it over, but still not sure what I need to get from that.
I did not have a .xinitrc file in my home directory, so I copied the default on into there...
cp /private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc
That file is quite extensive (the system default one).
I then tried "sourcing" the init.sh file by adding the following line to the file ~/.xinitrc right below the first commented line:
. /sw/bin/init.sh
This doesn't seem to be helping, though. Do I need to reboot the entire computer after this? I would think not...
I completely quit the terminal program and then started a new terminal session, and tried
open-x11 xchat
but you see the results I pasted above.
Still confused...
Sheila King http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
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