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Startx X11/Darwin
Authored by: suthercd on May 21, '03 02:32:18PM

After defining startx as an alias to /Applications/X11.app/contents/MacOS/X11 as show, the Terminal window seems to hang. login messages appear in the Terminal window and, as said above, are also reflected in the Console log. I wonder what is causing the hang, or am confused abut what I expect which is an xTerm window which relfects the .xinitrc and other .x files which I have customized?

Defining an alias to open -a X11, of couse works.

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Craig



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Startx X11/Darwin
Authored by: discordantus on May 21, '03 09:57:11PM

By saying it makes the terminal hang, what exactly do you mean? If you mean that you can't type any commands in the same terminal that you started X11 from, that is expected. startx normally will not return the terminal to your control. You can background startx (or any command, for that matter) by hitting control-z and typing bg.



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