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Problems Launching XDarwin
Hi. I'm a total Unix newbie. I just installed XFree86 using Fink and am anxious to start playing with window managers. I can start the XDarwin environment by launching the Mac OS X XDarwin application. Everything works fine. When I try to launch XDarwin from the Terminal, however, it reports a nonspecific error with xinit and cannot continue. (This is using the command "startx -- -quartz"). When I login as console and type "startx", XDarwin starts, gets to "Display Method: IOKit", and freezes. I'm sure I'm making some ridiculous newbie error and that this has been explained 1000 times, but all your help is really appreciated. Thanks a lot,
Problems Launching XDarwin
While I'm at it... 2 more things... When using XDarwin (launched from Mac OS X app), three different terminal windows appear on the screen... One runs the entire length of the left-hand side, one occupies about 60 percent of the right, and the third takes up the bottom 40 percent on the right. Only the left window seems to be active, and the text extends beyond the bottom of my screen. It is virtually unusable because I can't see what's going on below the bottom of the screen. How can I adjust these dimensions/margins? Also, an unrelated question: when I login as >console, it tells me I have 10 mail messages. These are messages returned to me when I tried to use my system as an SMTP server (without success). How can I delete them? Thanks a lot,
Problems Launching XDarwin
Problems Launching XDarwin
Thank you so much!!! I tried all the Orobus troubleshooting tips, and one of them certainly worked! It's great! I love it! Thanks again! Sorry for being a little overly excited... I've been stewing about this a long time...)
I Spoke In Haste
Well, apparently I spoke too soon. XDarwin now launches properly in the Quartz environment, but it still will not launch when logged in as console. It gets to the Display Method: IOKit stage and feezes, as before. Any ideas on this specifically? It seems odd to me that XDarwin should work so perfectly in conjunction with OS X, but not at all when running in the pure Darwin environment. Also, could you briefly tell me how to scroll up in an XDarwin terminal window with no scroll bars? The up arrow cycles through previous commands, and no other combination of keys I've tried seems to work. Thanks a lot,
I Spoke In Haste
Hmmm... that is odd! I suggest you look for any error messages in the output and post to one of the forums I link to on the "Introduction to X11 on OSX" page (probably the XDarwin one is worth starting with).
I Spoke In Haste
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