[Fink-beginners] How do you run KDE (by first setting up the .xinitrc file)?

2002-07-07 Thread Chris Uribe
I'm running Mac OS X. I've installed fink. I've installed KDE (with Pauls help::THANKS::) Now, how to run it. On the website it clearly states, "all you need to do is make an ~/.xinitrc file with the following line in it: source /sw/bin/init.sh /sw/bin/startkde " What is a .xinitrc file? Or

Re: [Fink-beginners] How do you run KDE (by first setting up the .xinitrc file)?

2002-07-07 Thread Individual . .
~ is a shorthand way of saying "the rest of the path that leads to your home directory, in which we will find..." ~/.xinitrc stands for /Users/yourusernamehere/.xinitrc You might want to check out some Terminal tutorials from www.osxfaq.com or www.macosxhints.com. Ill help if you cant fig

Re: [Fink-beginners] How do you run KDE (by first setting up the .xinitrc file)?

2002-07-07 Thread Individual . .
Perfect! thank you! It's much clearer for me now. Paul On Sunday, July 7, 2002, at 06:20 , Martin Costabel wrote: > Individual . . wrote: > [] >> Anyway on some systems, to get the same effect that you're used to on >> the mac, the text editor program needs to write "newline" plis >> "lin