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    XDarwin & Orobor

    Most problems can be solved if you reinstall OSX. ;) Cheers...
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    Terminal help!

    testuser, It works like a charm. Now my prompt looks like this: set prompt="\! [%{\033[32m%}%n%{\033[0m%} @%{\033[36m%}%/%{\033[0m%}]%{\033]0;%n@ %/\007%} : " Thanks again. Cheers...
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    Terminal help!

    testuser, Great, thanks a lot for the explanation. Cheers...
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    Terminal help!

    testuser, You tip works perfect. Now my prompt stands like this: set prompt="\! [%{\033[32m%}%n%{\033[0m%} @%{\033[36m%}%/%{\033[0m%}]%{\033]0;%/\007%} : " You mention I can subsitute other text into the title in the same way. Let's say I would like to have the word "hello@" in...
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    Terminal help!

    nkuvu, I wouldn't have used it with grey or white. You can't read it properly. ;) Before setting the background color, I naturally tested with several options. And I settled with dark red, as it looks very fine. Although it also goes well with 'tinted' dark blue (which I use...
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    Terminal help!

    testuser, Thanks for the tip, will try it out. I like that. buc99, I'm just fishing here, 1-How many hostconfig files show up in /etc ? 2-Have you tried making a new hostconfig file ? Cheers...
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    XDarwin & Orobor

    What I was concerned about, was to explain to a beginner, what to expect when he would decide to enter single user mode. I hope that now, the process is better understood. Anyhow, fsck is run at boot time automatically, as a sanity check. (When it says "Checking filesystems...", etc.etc...
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    Terminal help!

    If you want to display your location in your shell titlebar, you can do the following: (it works with terminal.app, xterm, aterm, eterm) Create (with an editor like vim) a file named .settitle in your home directory, and write the following commands: alias settitle 'echo -n...
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    Terminal help!

    Transparent Dark red. Why? You can check it up in some of the pictures here: http://homepage.mac.com/sao1/PhotoAlbum7.html Cheers...
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    Terminal help!

    The normal behavior is actually to show the hostname, not 'localhost'. (/etc/hostconfig has always had HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-.) Early versions of OS X had a bug that set the hostname to 'localhost' even when there was a known hostname. What version of OSX are you running in your Ti Book ...
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    fink can't install Debian Utils during self-compile

    Dominik, That's right, 'fink selfupdate-cvs' will work. For information, quoting the fink lists: <<Sourceforge.net changed their setup in a big way, a week or two ago. All of the fink package descriptions which specify downloads from sourceforge were then modified to be compatible...
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    XDarwin & Orobor

    chenly, If you enter into single user mode as suggested by buc99: Run fsck -y  Be sure to do this one first, it will check the boot volume's file system, and repair if necessary. This probabaly may not be able to fix all problems in a single pass, so if it finds and fixes anything...
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    OK, OK, OK. X Windowing on Mac OS X

    buc99 wrote: Apology accepted. There is no point to continue this exercise. With your permission, it seems we agree to disagree. Thanks. "For some a dream, for others...a nightmare." Cheers... PS: Good luck to you. ;)
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    XDarwin & Orobor

    Chenly, Please try this: sudo rm -rf /usr/X11R6 /etc/X11 Also, if you can open the console, could you post the last 30 lines? If it works, then you can just re-install XFree86 with Fink. Let me know. Cheers...
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    OK, OK, OK. X Windowing on Mac OS X

    buc99, This is what you wrote: In one post you said: Then in the next one you said: So which one will be, buc99 ? I'm relax, I'm paying attention, and I'm not mad at you. I just disagree with what you say, that's all. And, here are some of the reasons why: First...
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    OK, OK, OK. X Windowing on Mac OS X

    buc99, Relax, relax...take a deep breath... What are you talking about? Yes, I know...about your problems... with fink or without fink. About your love for this OS, about your help to other people in this forum. About Unix purity doctrine? All this sounds so romantic... But...
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    [FAQ] - UNIX basics for newbies

    Sorry if it was posted before, but I thought useful to add that when using rm is better to make an alias like this : alias rm rm -i or better still : alias askrm rm -i Cheers...
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    Testing FinkCommander...

    Hi all, I agree with nkuyu, you should anyhow back up your data in any case, even if you don't test anything. The purpose of 'testing' is not when the package is already established, but in the early development of the sofware. :) Anyhow, I found out is not so 'unstable' as the...
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    OK, OK, OK. X Windowing on Mac OS X

    buc99 wrote: That's a really good joke, :p It's the equivalent to saying that: Photoshop it's too lazy, it doesn't teach newbies where, why and how things are done in professional image-editing. Yeah, a good joke... Cheers...
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    OK, OK, OK. X Windowing on Mac OS X

    Fink is really the way to go. It's free, has support 24/7 through the mailing lists, it's very reliable and doesn't install things all over the place. I installed with fink more than 200 packages and getting better all the time. You can download the installer from here...
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