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X11 not quite ready for primetime?
Authored by: jg on Jan 07, '03 07:43:21PM

Did you have XDarwin installed before? If not, the Apple X11 installation must have added a generic xinitrc. Navigate to "/etc/X11/xinit" and edit xinitrc with your prefered editor (vi, emacs, pico) to delete any startup items from there. You should see something like "exec xterm &" or "xterm &" (no quotes).

If you ever installed an X Server before, then you might have a personal xinitrc on your home folder. It is a hidden file, I mean, it starts with a dot, and is called .xinitrc.

Regarding help files, all the X manpages should have been installed, but might not be on your man path. Try the command man X, but if it does not work, and if you use a sensible shell (zsh, bash), at the command prompt type export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/X11R6/man. In case you use the tcsh or csh then the command is: setenv MANPATH ${MANPATH}':/usr/X11R6/man'.



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