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Using XDarwin with Apple's X11
Authored by: VEGx on Mar 03, '03 01:57:48PM

OK, kind of a got it working, but I had to change some things.
Firstly, you need to add the "source /sw/bin/init.sh" to the `.tcshrc' file or you won't find the `xinit' program and it just will not start at all.

Did it, XDarwin finally started.

Next, started up at >console.
Problems. Many. First of all, can't use `mplayer'.
Secondly, when I finally typed `exit' it just hung, and hung... untill I had to press the power button.

Anyone else?



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Using XDarwin with Apple's X11
Authored by: JeoX3 on Mar 03, '03 10:10:12PM

When I quit my gnome-session in a >console login, the screen went blue with the little spinning spokes. If this happens, try typing "exit" again and then pressing return. I think this was detailed somewhere in some documentation, but I'm too lazy to figure out where. The terminal is still accepting input at the blue screen and so typing exit brings the login screen back.

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Using XDarwin with Apple's X11
Authored by: diamondsw on Mar 05, '03 02:05:16AM

Not sure why you'd need to add a "source" command to your .tcshrc file to start xinit. The source command is only to allow fink binaries to be found, and xinit isn't installed over there. Well, whatever works. :)

As for mplayer, I haven't run it, so I don't know. At this point, I was happy to just get the window server up and running. Alas, my boot partition is too small to install much else without risking disk corruption.



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CTRL-D May Resolve Issue
Authored by: dontlikehippies on Oct 12, '03 04:03:00AM
I found this tip at the very bottom of the XonX FAQ:
My computer crashes when exiting X in console mode. What now?
When exiting X after starting from the console, your computer may look as if it is locked up. When this condition occurs, the mouse is unresponsive, the spinning rainbow cursor will not go away, and you will not see the login window. Fortunately, your computer isn't really locked up, and you can get to the login window and clear the condition by typing CTRL-D or 'exit' or 'logout'. This condition occurs because the terminal session running in console mode doesn't redraw the screen when XDarwin exits. Typing one of the alternatives above exits that terminal session and brings you back to the login window where you can start up another one.

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