[Newbie]X on MAC OSX

[Paul D. Filliman]

Title: X on MAC OSX



I am trying to get X started on my powerbook G4. I have installed Xfree86. The directory’s look
Right. I set the path required. 
Whenever I attempt to run a program using X I get the error “Can't open display”
I have tried setting DISPLAY to the machine name but it does not work.
How can I set DISPLAY, or is there another problem.
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Re: [Newbie]X on MAC OSX

[Torrey T. Lyons]

Title: Re: [Newbie]X on MAC OSX


At 7:05 PM -0400 10/25/02, Paul D. Filliman wrote:
I am trying to get X
started on my powerbook G4. I have installed Xfree86. The
directory's look
Right. I set the path required.
Whenever I attempt to run a program using X I get the error "Can't
open display"
I have tried setting DISPLAY to the machine name but it does not
work.
How can I set
DISPLAY, or is there another problem.
--

You need to start the X server before you can run any X11
applications. The X server is named XDarwin and lives in
/Applications. Double click on the XDarwin icon to start it. By
default this is will give you a bunch of xterms and twm as your window
manager. Note that if you are running Jaguar you will need to download
the XFree86 4.2.0.1 update from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xonx.
XFree86 4.2.1.1 is also available there and you should do this update
as well after updating to 4.2.0.1.

--Torrey

Re: [Newbie]X on MAC OSX

[Oisin C. Feeley]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paul D. Filliman wrote:

> I am trying to get X started on my powerbook G4. I have installed
> Xfree86. The directory¹s look Right. I set the path required. Whenever I
> attempt to run a program using X I get the error ³Can't open display² I
> have tried setting DISPLAY to the machine name but it does not work. How
> can I set DISPLAY, or is there another problem.

Your Microsoft Mail User Agent is putting bizarre, non-standard characters 
into your posts making them hard to read.  

Have you made sure that you used the syntax "DISPLAY=hostname:0" ?  The 
"0" in this specifies the display number. 

When you say "whenever I try to run a program requiring X" does that mean 
that you actually have an X session running?

Oisin Feeley


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[Newbie]X on MAC OSX Again

[Lamont Cranston]

I, too, am trying to get XDarwin working on a Macintosh G4 running OS X. I 
had it working for two days, but (like an idiot) updated some things and 
now it doesn't work anymore. I'm running OS X.2 (jaguar). I have 
uninstalled it (I'm never sure if I've gotten everything, but I've deleted 
everything I can find) and am starting from scratch. I've installed 
"XFree86_4.2.0.1-10.2" followed by "Jaguar XTerm Update" When I launch 
XDawrin the screen will go gray (in full screen mode, like it's supposed 
to) stay that way for approximately ten seconds, then it will crash and go 
back to OS X.
	Any ideas? Suggestions? Black magic? I really need to get this working. 
Thanks,
		Lamont


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Re: [Newbie]X on MAC OSX Again

[Torrey T. Lyons]

At 9:40 AM -0800 10/28/02, Lamont Cranston wrote:

I, too, am trying to get XDarwin working on a Macintosh G4 running 
OS X. I had it working for two days, but (like an idiot) updated 
some things and now it doesn't work anymore. I'm running OS X.2 
(jaguar). I have uninstalled it (I'm never sure if I've gotten 
everything, but I've deleted everything I can find) and am starting 
from scratch. I've installed "XFree86_4.2.0.1-10.2" followed by 
"Jaguar XTerm Update" When I launch XDawrin the screen will go gray 
(in full screen mode, like it's supposed to) stay that way for 
approximately ten seconds, then it will crash and go back to OS X.

The appropriate upgrade path is:

1. XFree86 4.2.0
2. XFree86 4.2.0.1
3. XFree86 4.2.1.1

(The Jaguar XTerm Update is not needed and has been removed from the 
web site.) You must install in this order and you should not skip 
steps. From your description it sounds like you did not start with a 
basic XFree86 4.2.0 install.

--Torrey
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Re: [Newbie]X on MAC OSX Again

[Dufour Eric]

Have you tried to re-install the latest Developer´s tools. It´s 
providing a lot of essential basic functions that you may have 
wiped-out accidentally.

By the way, have you taken a look at the fink website, they can provide 
more mac-specific answers for X11...

And try starting with the Terminal instead of XDarwin : typing startx 
-- -quartz
It will launch XDarwin but also give you informations on the causes of 
the failure in the terminal window.
Just after the start, you can turn back to OS-X pushing apple-alt-a...

good luck
eric

On Monday, October 28, 2002, at 06:40 PM, Lamont Cranston wrote:

I, too, am trying to get XDarwin working on a Macintosh G4 running OS 
X. I had it working for two days, but (like an idiot) updated some 
things and now it doesn't work anymore. I'm running OS X.2 (jaguar). I 
have uninstalled it (I'm never sure if I've gotten everything, but 
I've deleted everything I can find) and am starting from scratch. I've 
installed "XFree86_4.2.0.1-10.2" followed by "Jaguar XTerm Update" 
When I launch XDawrin the screen will go gray (in full screen mode, 
like it's supposed to) stay that way for approximately ten seconds, 
then it will crash and go back to OS X.
	Any ideas? Suggestions? Black magic? I really need to get this 
working. Thanks,
		Lamont


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Re: [Newbie]X on MAC OSX Again

[Alex Vaughan]

(Sorry for the double, Eric)

Hi,

I'm having similar problems.  I've reinstalled DevTools (July2k, no 
updates), and installed X via the Xinstall app from
http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xonx/XInstall_10.1.sit . 
This installs 4.2.0.


As with Lamont, this _has_ worked, but no longer.  I don't recall it 
working since I installed Jaguar, actually.  (I'm sending this to 
fink folk as well, but I thought I'd cast my line here.)

When I start up from console, I get the gray X screen, and a spinning 
mac lollipop (in grayscale?), which sits there forever doing nothing 
until I reboot.  Starting from terminal (startx -- -quartz, standard 
permissions) yesterday gave something similar, where it was waiting 
for Xwindows to begin accepting events (or something like that, I 
didn't write it down, stupidly) and it waited until I tired of it.


Starting from the terminal (starx -- -quartz, standard permissions) 
gives the following:

""
2002-10-31 11:53:45.511 XDarwin[480]
XDarwin 1.1
Running in parallel with Mac OS X Quartz window server.

XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 18 January 2002
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your hardware is
newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
reporting problems.  (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: Darwin
Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping.
Display mode: Full screen Quartz
Screen 0 added: 1024x768 @ (0,0)
cat: /Users/avaughan/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
dyld: xterm Undefined symbols:
xterm undefined reference to _tgetent expected to be defined in 
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
xterm undefined reference to _tgetstr expected to be defined in 
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
dyld: xterm Undefined symbols:
xterm undefined reference to _tgetent expected to be defined in 
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
xterm undefined reference to _tgetstr expected to be defined in 
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
dyld: xterm Undefined symbols:
xterm undefined reference to _tgetent expected to be defined in 
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
xterm undefined reference to _tgetstr expected to be defined in 
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

waiting for X server to shut down Quitting XDarwin...
.
""

libSystem.B.dylib doesn't exist, although libSystem.dylib (a binary) does.
~/.Xauthority doesn't exist, but .Xauth-OSX does.  I'm loathe to 
change anything in /usr/lib/, though I suppose I could try renaming 
.Xauth-OSX to .Xauthority

Any hints?

Thanks,
Alex
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Re: [Newbie]X on MAC OSX Again

[Torrey T. Lyons]

At 12:05 PM -0500 10/31/02, Alex Vaughan wrote:

I'm having similar problems.  I've reinstalled DevTools (July2k, no 
updates), and installed X via the Xinstall app from
http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xonx/XInstall_10.1.sit . 
This installs 4.2.0.


As with Lamont, this _has_ worked, but no longer.  I don't recall it 
working since I installed Jaguar, actually.  (I'm sending this to 
fink folk as well, but I thought I'd cast my line here.)

XFree86 4.2.0 is not compatible with Jaguar. You need to update to 
4.2.0.1 available at . While 
you are at it you will want to update to 4.2.1.1. Make sure you 
update in order as mentioned previously. Ie. You have to install 
4.2.0 first, then 4.2.0.1, and finally 4.2.1.1 in order without 
skipping steps. If you use XDarwin frequently you may want add 
yourself to the XonX-Users or XonX-Announce mailing list or indicate 
at SourceForge that you want to be notified of XFree86 releases by 
the XonX project.

--Torrey
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