Hello again...
--On Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:58 AM +0100 Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sheila King wrote:
[]OK, fine. that worked. As as Alexander Hansen said, it started 3 Xwindows.
You can control this with your .xinitrc script. You want to start a reasonable window manager.
That's what I figured. When I set up Gentoo Linux about 6 months back I recall selecting a windows manager and adding that to the end of my .xinitrc file.
Fink has a whole collection of them. Or you can try OroborOSX. They have very different levels of ugliness. The image from the xchat web site uses Apple's X11 and Apple's quartz-wm window manager.
Finally "get" the whole Apple Xwindows version thing. Went here and here http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/ and got Apple's X11 and installed that. Helps some...
I did try his command for setting the Display environment, but it gave an error message as follows:
iMac:~ sheilaking$ setenv DISPLAY :0 bash: setenv: command not found
2. Set the DISPLAY environment variable in the shell from which you are starting xchat:
export DISPLAY=:0
Tried the export DISPLAY:=0 instead, and that appeared to work.
These are shell dialect differences between tcsh ("setenv") and bash ("export").
OK. I have more of a bash background. Could swear I've used setenv in bash before, but export works for me too.
At this point I'm somewhat thinking of trying out DarwinPorts.
The Fink repository has no mail servers that show up in the FinkCommander for download/installation, even if I select "unstable" option. However, DarwinPorts has mail servers in their repository (such as postfix...)
Is running both Fink and DarwinPorts possible? Not advised? ... ???
Thanks again for the assistance,
-- Sheila King http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
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