Try running XDarwin from a terminal ('startx -- -quartz') so that you
can see any error messages. Also, did you set up your .xinitrc file in
your home directory to start blackbox?
On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 11:48, Ian L. wrote:
> I've obviously missed something vital. Could someone please point me to a
> resource on how to get Fink going with 10.2?
>
> I've reformatted and installed 10.2 and immediately installed Fink. I then
> added "unstable/main" to my tree and installed xfree86-base, the BlackBox
> window manager, and a few other essentials. When I open XDarwin, I get the
> grey screen with the X cursor, and XDarwin then quits.
>
> Should I be installing everything by compiling from source (`fink install
> [package]', right?), or is it just a few things that need to need to be
> compiled, or do I need to RTFM, or does Fink-installed software not work on
> Thursdays when the moon is in a waning gibbous phase?
>
> On 8/28/02 12:47 PM, James Gorham enlightened us with:
>
> > I installed Xdarwin from the XonX project, and applied the recent 10.2
> > update. This seems to work fine, Xdarwin launches with no problem, and there
> > were no major installation errors. I did all this because I believed
> > sitecopy had some X11 dependencies, and the XonX installer is quite easy.
>
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