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tobes, Create with pico in terminal.app a file called .Xdefaults in your home directory and write the following: *XTerm*deleteIsDEL: true xterm*saveLines: 10000 xterm*scrollBar: true xterm*rightScrollBar: true...

Write with pico a .xinitrc file in your home directory to start 'xterm' with the -geometry option, so it doesn't go under the menu bar and start 'windowmaker' window manager instead of quartz-wm: % cd (to go to your home directory) % pico .xinitrc When pico opens the file, write...

vikingshelmut, Or you could write in your ~/.cshrc or ~/.tcshrc file: if (! $?DISPLAY) then setenv DISPLAY :0.0 endif

The latest Apple document on "How to Replace the NetInfo Database" is here...

Hello everybody, I have created a "Fink and Apple's X11" web site for beginners: http://homepage.mac.com/sao1/fink/index.html I hope you find it useful. Sao

pawright24, Just to check, post the result of: 'fink list xfree86' 1- You need to have installed the Apple December 2002 Developer Tools, not the ones that came with the Jaguar CD. Register for free at the ADC download them from here: http://www.apple.com/developer/ Then...

Next time Fink doesn't find a file, make a google search, find the file yourself, download it manually, then: cp the file to /sw/src and next time you run: 'fink install packagename' Fink will recognize the file and continue to install it. Cheers...

btoneill, I suggest you also give them the location of your FAQs in your post at the Apple X11-users list as several people got puzzled by it: http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/x11-users/mail2.html Cheers...

knussear, Of course it works if you install The Gimp with "Fink"... :) Cheers...

StarBuck, After installing Fink, you must set your PATH environment variable in order to use the software installed in Fink's directory hierarchy, you do this by writing the following shell script at the beginning of your ~/.cshrc or ~/.tcshrc files: source /sw/bin/init.csh If you...

chabig, You can start XFree86 under Mac OS X via startx from Terminal.app with: 1- startx -- -fullscreen (you tell the server that it should run in parallel with Quartz) That will start up the server in fullscreen mode, plus the clients in your .xinitrc. 2- startx -- -rootless...

It seems this is caused by a bad ~/.xinitrc file. Please, post the contents of your ~/.xinitrc file. Cheers...

Try to start X11 from terminal.app with: startx -- -fullscreen and post here the log-messages. Cheers...

karavite, 'fink install bundle-kde-ssl' Cheers...

Hydroglow, 1- You could find out which packages depend on the -threaded branch and remove them. find /sw/fink/dists/ -name \*.info | xargs grep Depends | grep threaded | more I know that if you installed "bundle-kde" or "bundle-kde-ssl" from 'unstable' (In the new bundle-kde and...

karavite, Configure Fink to use the unstable branch by editing the /sw/etc/fink.config file by adding unstable/main /unstable/crypto to the Trees: line. Trees: local/main unstable/main unstable/crypto stable/main stable/crypto local/bootstrap Then, run 'fink index' And after, 'fink...

Hydroglow, At the moment, only a very few packages do *not* work with the standard xfree86-base, and require xfree86 with the "threaded" option: I know of the packages "cdat", "libxine", "xine-ui", "kxine" and I'm sure more will come. I changed to the threaded packages myself because I...

Luca, How did you installed XDarwin and from where? XDarwin wouldn't mess with the finder or the dock. Cheers...

Jon, To check which fonts are available in XDarwin, you can use 'xfontsel' Cheers...

chaddage, Darwin is the Open Source release of the Mac OS X operating system. Is available free of charge and with full source code. But it does not contain Quartz, Aqua, or any other related technology. Quartz is the graphics engine in MacOS X who has full control of the screen...